PADUA (ITALPRESS) – “A cowardice, a wrong questionnaire because the presentation of the document actually suggests answers to questions on the role of meat and its healthiness that are still the subject of a great debate in the EU”. Giuseppe Pulina, president of Sustainable Meat and lecturer in Special Zootechnics at the University of Sassari does not stop his thrust on the questionnaire that since March 31st the Commission has put online to collect citizens’ opinions on the possible options to be adopted to consolidate the policies of promotion of European agriculture by strengthening, we read, “competitiveness through greater awareness of the high quality standards that characterize agri-food products”. “So far, nothing to complain”, underlines Pulina. “But later we read that ‘the revision of the policy in 2021 should improve its contribution to sustainable production and consumption in line with the transition to a more plant-based diet, with less red meat and / or processed together with other foods related to the cancer risk ‘”. “You cannot manipulate the will of citizens in this way – replies Pulina – We are in the presence of a sneaky way that asks citizens if they agree with the orientation of the promoters of the questionnaire: one thing is to inform the citizen objectively to collect his opinion on that particular topic, another is to ask him if his thoughts are in line with those who ask him the questions. Through the official channels I have already moved to the competent offices to report this incorrect method “. “The questions contained in the questionnaire are strongly tendentious – urges the president of the IntercarneItalia Interprofessional Organization, Alessandro De Rocco – and do not help the citizen to provide objective answers. It is evident that behind this type of initiatives there are lobbies whose only interest is to bury the beef sector. As producer organizations we are working with our European colleagues to make our voices heard, unfortunately aware that we have very well structured NGOs in front of us with huge economic resources that are carrying out a campaign based solely on I do not think that animal welfare associations know that the first to want to ensure their livestock the best conditions of animal welfare are precisely the breeders, perhaps they do not know that in the last 100 years the efficiency of a cow has improved by 65% with an undoubted health and environmental benefit and perhaps I am not aware that thanks to the rumination of cattle, 80% of non-edible vegetable production is transformed into noble proteins that we find in the dish when we eat meat. We ask for balance and we believe that politics should intervene to avoid a drift that, precisely for the reasons expressed above, risks seeing losers not only the farmers, but the entire ecosystem and above all the consumer. “Giuseppe Pulina speaks of a prejudicial ideological battle. underlines how in his opinion there is “a very precise design to shift consumption towards processed meatloafs or laboratory meat, referring to a fake concept of sustainability that has nothing sustainable, given that behind these fake democratic projects there are millionaire investments. The consumption of beef is demonized but we forget to point out that every year, in the world, due to gastrointestinal diseases, 2 million children die. The livestock world is in the trenches, there is no doubt about this, the attacks are daily and to try to win this battle it is necessary to change the paradigm and stop adopting a defensive strategy. Mine is an invitation to breeders who must open up to public opinion by demonstrating that there is well-being in the barn, that the farming systems are respectful of the regulations in both animal and environmental matters. At the same time, citizens must understand that a farm is not a living room, but a place where animals live, grow and perform all natural physiological conditions “. (ITALPRESS). Abr / com 08-Apr-21 14:27
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