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‘Eat less meat’: Minister calls on Spaniards to cut down on carnivorous habits
TheLocal.es ^ | 8 July 2021 13:10 CEST

Posted on 07/10/2021 10:38:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Consumer Affairs Minister Alberto Garzón has reignited the debate about Spain’s love of meat by asking Spaniards to consume less “carne” to protect their personal health as well as the future of the planet.

“I am worried. I am worried about the planet,” Garzón said in a video posted on Twitter on July 7th, pleading with Spaniards to cut down their meat consumption to improve their personal well-being and that of the planet’s.

“Without a planet we have no life, we have no salaries and we have no economy. And we are bringing this upon ourselves. One thing we can change, which has a direct impact on the planet, is our diet. We can change our diet and improve the state of the planet”.

Garzón explained that according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the meat and dairy industry accounts for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. […]

Spain consumes seven million tonnes of meat each year, which comes from the slaughter of 70 million animals. […]

Despite Spaniards’ excessive consumption of meat, it doesn’t seem to be affecting their health too much, as the Spanish are predicted to have the longest life expectancy in the world by 2040 — mainly thanks to their Mediterranean diet. In 2019, Spain was already considered the healthiest country in the world, according to the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index. …

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TOPICS: Food; Local News; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; eatingtastyanimals; eussr; fourthreich; garzon; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; meat; spain; vegans; vegetarians
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1 posted on 07/10/2021 10:38:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They will pry my jamón from my cold dead hands.


2 posted on 07/10/2021 10:39:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Cheeseburger in Paradise

Tried to amend my carnivorous habits
Made it nearly seventy days
Losin’ weight without speed, eatin’ sunflower seeds
Drinkin’ lots of carrot juice and soakin’ up rays
But at night I’d have these wonderful dreams
Some kind of sensuous treat
Not zucchini, fettuccini, or bulgur wheat
But a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat


3 posted on 07/10/2021 10:41:30 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: dfwgator

Where do these idiots come from? Spain? …we have enough of them here….this stuff has to stop, it is serious stupid.


4 posted on 07/10/2021 10:41:41 AM PDT by delta7
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To: dfwgator

Entirely acceptable to them. Not that they care about animals you understand.


5 posted on 07/10/2021 10:42:37 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I distrust camels and anyone else who doesn't drink for a week.)
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To: delta7

I’ve never been to Spain…


6 posted on 07/10/2021 10:42:38 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: delta7

I loves me some Tapas and Paella. They better not mess with it.


7 posted on 07/10/2021 10:43:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

But I kinda like the music.


8 posted on 07/10/2021 10:43:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

“I am worried. I am worried about the planet,”

Get an ulcer wankstain.


9 posted on 07/10/2021 10:43:44 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: delta7

Don’t doubt me, it is a spiritual battle…..loss of Christianity is the only explanation.

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.


10 posted on 07/10/2021 10:44:43 AM PDT by delta7
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To: Bonemaker
“I am worried. I am worried about the planet,”

Seriously, the best thing these people can do for the planet is to kill themselves. That might impress me with their level of commitment to the cause.

11 posted on 07/10/2021 10:45:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I hear the ladies are insane there…


12 posted on 07/10/2021 10:45:40 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: Olog-hai

Well, if the rain in Spain stayed mainly on the plain, there would be plenty of grass for the cattle to eat...hence, more MEAT.

If God didn’t want us to eat tasty animals, he would not have made them out of MEAT in the first place.


13 posted on 07/10/2021 10:45:41 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: Olog-hai

Pass the burgers.


14 posted on 07/10/2021 10:49:31 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
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To: dfwgator
"Seriously, the best thing these people can do for the planet is to kill themselves."


15 posted on 07/10/2021 10:50:10 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Olog-hai
Hope you enjoy your B-12 deficiency

Screw up your own life, but leave everybody else alone…

16 posted on 07/10/2021 10:50:22 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I miss out mean tweeting, man spreading, room owning President…)
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To: Olog-hai

The religio-Environmental totalitarian should worry more about his BBQ, like most Spaniards.


17 posted on 07/10/2021 11:06:06 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: delta7

Every time we eat a cheeseburger the Gospel is in the act; something has to die for us to live. This goes all the way back to God’s everlasting covenant with Noah’s (all of us) family, and even further to the fall where the sacrifice of an innocent animal was required as payment for sins pointing ultimately to Jesus Christ’s sacrifice on the cross


18 posted on 07/10/2021 11:08:10 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Plants have to die for us to eat them, too. You don’t consume an apple and then have an apple tree spring out of you . . .

The animal used to symbolize Christ is the lamb, specifically. And there were also plant sacrifices in the First and Second Temples, particularly the grain offerings.


19 posted on 07/10/2021 11:14:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Plant based food is lab based food. Its a Coke, a can of frosting, Bisquick, Marshmallows, and so many more food items that are horrible to eat. The reality is animal based food including fat is packed with so many more vitamins that your body readily uses. Most Caucasians depended on animal based food for the bulk of their diet for most of the existence of the race. The dependence on a heavily processed carb meal has produced fatter, sicker, Americans with numerous long term life threatening diseases that had never occurred before in so many people. Cancer, Diabetes 2 and liver disease as well as heart attacks and Alzheimer disease can be traced to a high carb diet and processed vegetable oils.


20 posted on 07/10/2021 11:22:50 AM PDT by poinq
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