EHNE calls for the production of synthetic food to be prohibited in the Basque Country

EHNE calls for the production of synthetic food to be prohibited in the Basque Country

EHNE calls for the production of synthetic food to be prohibited in the Basque Country

The Bizkaia agricultural and livestock union has stressed that “it is not possible” to continue defending two conflicting production models.

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The EHNE Bizkaia agricultural and livestock union has asked the Basque institutions to “prohibit the production and marketing of synthetic food”.

EHNE Bizkaia, which announced the conclusions of its XII Congress this Sunday, highlighted that a “clash” between two models of food production“food produced by the baserritarras” as opposed to “in vitro feeding” that implies agriculture “without baserritarras”.

“Faced with this reality it is not possible to continue defending the two modelsnor maintain a position of neutrality”, the Biscayan agricultural and livestock union stressed in a note when demanding that the Basque institutions prohibit the production and commercialization of synthetic food.

After exposing that “industrialized agriculture has reached the limit as a production model in terms of sustainability”, EHNE Bizkaia indicates that “the next link is located in the synthetic feed“, which “is going to be presented as environmentally sustainable and ethical from the scale of values”.

For EHNE, the “actors” that drive these processes are “the financial interests installed in the agribusiness and the institutional approval (also in Euskal Herria)”.

Faced with synthetic food, EHNE Bizkaia considers “more urgent than ever” a “paradigm shift from industrialized agriculture and fisheries to diversified agroecological systems and sustainable fisheries.

Defend”transform the agrarian and food system with the objective of advancing towards food sovereignty based on agroecology and sustainability, which ensures the conservation of biodiversity, the production of sustainable and local food, based on decent working conditions”.

This, according to the Bizkaia farmers’ and ranchers’ union, requires a “land use planning and relocation of global production and distribution chains of food, which promote a close relationship between the producer and consumer”.

Source: Eitb

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