Beyond the potential impact on our health from consumption of any of these products, an issue certainly important, what these food scandals clearly bring out the whole production of a model animal with many more problems than advantages. I say a model because I refer exclusively to the prevailing form-very far from the well know farmer and livestock-raising and fattening animals on drums, stressed and rapidly, is that why it is called industrial or intensive farming, because it seems that pigs and chickens produce like nuts or vans.
analyze dioxin contamination in Germany gives us many clues. Pick up a magnifying glass, please. First notice that the contamination of a single feed mill could lead to health risks for many people. That is, the lens allows us to see that this production system has lost its self-sufficiency.
Factory farming of pigs, cows or chickens and are not fed with raw materials from the farm or nearby farms, but work completely broken land and the territory where they settle. Need-are 100% food-dependent mode I think come from abroad.
addition, the neoliberal political model has led to a great concentration of power at this point in the food chain, ys on very few companies control the entire market for livestock feed . Thus, a single consignment of feed contaminated spoiled millions of animals. One thing: a single company controls nearly 20% of the feed produced in Spain.
Without autonomy, the costs of any farm-dependent markets global commodity, and if, as is happening in these months, the speculation cereals or legumes creating higher prices at the Chicago Stock Exchange, prices of feed of Extremadura and Castilla farms will be affected . In short, this is a model that has been disappearing from our countryside for many small farms.
Secondly, reports say that one of the hypothesis of contamination of the feed in Germany is the use of contaminated oil from biodiesel plants by an excess of pesticides in soy that comes this green fuel. If we extend these data with the magnifying glass in hand we will observe concerned about what they feed the animals that would later become our food, cars waste vomit (remember two years ago the debate about the merits of these agrocombusitibles and how we said it would not compete with food for people? No not complement the rich for cars, for people waste ) soybean monoculture arrived in South America. Are the same crops that are appropriate oligarchies, landowners and large corporations, expelling the Argentine countryside, Bolivian, Uruguayan, Paraguayan ... to millions of small and small farmers who now sleep under cardboard roofs en las villas miserias.
Los que se quedaron en el campo denuncian constantemente cómo el uso excesivo de pesticidas envenena sus aguas, sus tierras y sus vísceras. Sí –han acertado–, los mismos pesticidas sospechosos del biodiésel.
Vamos, que en uno de los platos de la balanza de la ganadería industrial pueden sumar pobreza en el medio rural, riesgos sanitarios y destrucción del medio ambiente y, en el otro, su capacidad de producir muchos alimentos (o pseudoalimentos).
Sin embargo, tenemos otra forma de producir alimentos de origen animal: la ganadería a pequeña escala extensiva y trashumante , que –en comparación– provides many more benefits. Management involves much more animal-friendly, generating high-quality food products, can seize and maintain ecosystems of great ecological and environmental value, such as meadows and mountain pastures, as enormous advantage areas unsuitable for agriculture; contributes effectively to increase the organic matter and to preserve the vegetation cover of the poorest soils, helps to stem climate change is an effective weapon to control the proliferation and prevention of bush fires, and, fundamentally becomes in a sustainable activity that allows people in rural areas directly or indirectly involved in other economic sectors such as small food-processing industries, catering or maintenance of landscapes.
In addition (and this is my response to the initial question): There must be limits to intensive farming which only large corporations gain power. "
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