They ask Eroski not to sell milk from the macro-workshop of Caparroso in Pamplona
- Convened by the Movement for Food Sovereignty of Navarre, last Saturday about 300 people have concentrated on the Plaza Félix Huarte de Pamplona/Iruña, in the Iturrama district. Protesters have asked Eroski not to sell milk from the Odiet Valley Macro-Workshop under the Sustainable Seal and with the "animal welfare" seal.
They denounce that in the last decades the agricultural policies of Navarra have changed model and have brought to industrial livestock: “Livestock production, stable, without connection to the soil, with an unlimited number of animals per farm”. As a result, they say that macro-farms have increased a lot “to produce much, fast and cheap, without taking into account their environmental, social, economic and health consequences”.
The Government of Navarre has authorised the Government of Navarre to double 3,450 cows to 7,200. The movement for food sovereignty has explained that these macro-infraternities have serious consequences from many points of view. Highlights:
One is that they consume large amounts of energy and large quantities of waste, causing serious damage to biodiversity; two, they require large investments that only large producers can make, “but we pay them all, because they rely heavily on public money”; three, they are highly automated, and they generate very low and precarious employment, eliminating small producers and empting populations; four, they own land, they are destined for monoculture – above all – granules.
Movement also refers to health effects: “They pose serious risks to public health, such as an increase in diseases and pandemics, especially due to the accumulation of animals and the excessive use of medicines and antibiotics.”
Appeal to government, consumers and society
They have therefore asked the Government of Navarre to promote the agro-ecological transition and demand that it “stop supporting agriculture and industrial livestock and stop the new macro-farms”.
Consumers are urged to make real, responsible and fair consumption by purchasing food from nearby, agro-ecological and small producers in neighborhood businesses, producer markets and consumer associations. They have also asked society to mobilize “to globalize and curb this capitalist agri-food system that is generating an unprecedented planetary and human crisis; we appeal to work for food sovereignty to ensure a future that puts life at the centre.”
This video of Ahotsa.info shows the images of the mobilisation and the explanations of Gotzone Sestao:
