Faced with the controversy that arose around large livestock farms, the Basque Executive defends family farming because “it is respectful of the environment and offers quality products”.
Faced with the social and political debate generated by the statements of the Minister of Consumption, Alberto Garzón, on macro-farms, the Basque Government has affirmed this Thursday that bet on family farming and that it rejects large cattle farms “because it is not our model.”
“This country’s commitment to family farming has always been based on four premises that remain in force: quality, product traceability, care for the environment and animal welfare,” recalls the Executive of Iñigo Urkullu.
In this sense, he assures that the Basque model “is very far from what the farms questioned in the current social and political debate represent” and that the Basque Government “is committed to supporting overcome structural deficits so that the cattle production of Euskadi is directed to the internal market “.
He also highlighted that family farming “It is respectful with the environment and offers quality products”.
In the Basque Autonomous Community there are 11,249 cattle farms, but there are no macro farms.
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