The Minister of ConsumerMacrogranjas meat.
Speaking to the Canary Islands Radio Televisión collected by Europa Press, Garzón considers that it must also be achieved that this meat comes from extensive livestock to which it has defined as "ecologically sustainable and with neutral impact", compared to which it comes from intensive macrogranjaswhere in small spaces 4 are concentrated.000, 5.000 or 6.000 head of cattle, with barely creation of jobs and a meat quality worse that, at the same time, entails an extraordinarily high and very dangerous environmental effect for life on the planet ".
In addition to health reasons, the environmental dimension that believes that "are going to the same", because the excessive consumption of meat has "consequences for the environment" such as greenhouse gas emissions ".In this regard he recalled that WHO advises to eat a maximum of 500 grams weekly meat while in Spain the average is much higher.
"The alternative option, consuming less meat, also improves the health of the planet," said Garzón that sees in it a double victory, because a reduction in "progressive and systematic meat consumption" will imply an individual health improvement and also of the own ownplanet.
In this way, asked about the prohibition of advertising of processed foods at certain times to promote an improvement in child feeding, Garzón has pointed to the autonomous communities as responsible administrations so that they advance in the promotion of healthy eating in schools in the schoolsand institutes before the problem of child obesity in Spain, which is around 40 percent among children under 6 to 9 years of age.
Thus, he said that this is "another" of the lines of work that must be coordinated with the autonomous communities since while some schools and institutes are introducing healthy menus and other forms of food acquisition continue to exist others that have vending machines withUltra processed and "even" products with energy drinks, therefore very harmful to health if they are consumed systematically and barely vegetables and fruits.
In his opinion, this is one of the "great battles" that has to be done at the level of the whole society."Each public administration must contribute to the manner possible but we all have to advance in the same direction to improve individual health but also from the point of view of collective health," he said.
In short, what it intends is to "improve" the consumption habits of the child population that lives a public health problem "of the first order".Thus, he recalled that the last Aladdin report, published in 2020, concluded that among children 6 to 9 years of age overweight and obesity represent 40 percent, figures that indicate that they are equivalent to those of the United States orMexico and "do not correspond" to the habits of the Mediterranean diet.
