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Coinciding with the start of Sepor Lorca (Murcia), the livestock, industrial and agri-food fair of state and international relevance, Ecologists in Action and neighborhood platforms against industrial livestock have starred in a complaint action at the gates of the fairgrounds.
The environmental, socio-economic and public health consequences of the industrial livestock model have been shown through a _performance_ claim .
This action is part of the 2020 Rebellion for Climate initiative, which aims to place the climate emergency at the center of political action based on complaint actions before the main leaders of the planet's health.
A quarter of greenhouse gas emissions come directly or indirectly from industrial livestock.
According to the 2018 livestock census, Murcia is one of the provinces with the highest concentration of industrial pigs with almost two million pigs, along with Barcelona, ​​and only surpassed by Lleida, Huesca and Zaragoza.
The municipality of Lorca concentrates one of these two million and, like the other areas with a high concentration of this industry, has its aquifers contaminated by nitrates, according to the Resolution of June 27, 2019 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water.
In this context the Sepor Lorca Fair is held every year, with great tradition in the town.
This year, Ecologists in Action along with neighborhood platforms in Murcia, Almeria and Granada affected by industrial livestock, wanted to make visible the consequences of this productive model.
For this, organizations have developed a performance called 'Industrial livestock in the street: impacts and alternatives'.
From five theatrical scenes, labor exploitation, animal welfare problems, water pollution, public health risks and climate change have been represented as impacts of agribusiness.
It has also shown extensive livestock as an alternative to fix population in rural areas and make sustainable use of natural resources.
Ecologists in Action and neighborhood platforms have recalled that at the level of food consumption, a diet that abuses the products of
Animal origin carries an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and colorectal cancer, according to different medical studies.
To these risks must be added the resistance to antibiotics caused, in large part, by overmedication in livestock and that makes them less and less effective.
Taking into account all these impacts, a profound change in the livestock production model is necessary to reverse the situation
both locally with the contamination of aquifers, and globally with global warming.
Daniel González, spokesman for Ecologists in Action, explained it with an example: “The recent case of the Mar Menor has made us witness an environmental catastrophe that has been brewing in recent decades because of poor political management and business practices that respond only to productivist criteria ”.
With the action carried out today in Lorca, Ecologists in Action wants to contribute to the debate on the agrifood model.
In its proposal is the construction of a production and consumption model that is based on the needs of the populations and not the benefits of companies, that respects ecosystems and offers healthy food for people.
Source: Ecologistas en Acción
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