As if a slap was answered with another slap. These were the first declarations of the Regulatory Council of the León Designation of Origin positioning themselves against “intensive livestock breeding and biogas plant projects” fueled by slurry and responded this Wednesday by Asaja León asks him to “refrain from confronting farmers and ranchers.”
And from there, Asaja toughens his tone and warns that he “does not allow” the Regulatory Council, “nor its representatives, with first and last names” to “confront” breeders with “citizenship”. He further complains that “abuse in a derogatory tone of the term “macrofarms” misused. “They also do not want to defend the creation of wealth and employment in a region where this merit corresponds above all to the livestock sector, in particular that linked to dairy production”, they add from the agricultural organization, which recalls that the declaration of the DO León is consistent as expressed by other regulatory councils such as that of Ribera del Duero.
“Asaja does not allow wine growers (and not wine growers) to they want to become masters and lords of the territorythat breeding bothers them and that they want to ban it with their approaches to the Ministry (as they say)”, they underline in a press release, in which, in addition, they call for “to think about what they would think if the breeders opposed their projects“.
“And to the numerous subsidies they receive, listing the alleged harmful effects on health of a drink which is apparently also alcoholic”, they add in the severe writing in which they arrive to describe this Regulatory Council as a “whore”while urging the winegrowers after the writing which sparked the controversy “to make good wine, to pay the winegrowers well for the grapes”, since they consider “that they do not do it” as well as to “contribute And do not torpedo economic development and social of the province.
Of course, from Asaja, they specify at the same time that “no” enters into the assessment of biogas installationsas they will when submitting projects for environmental impact assessment. “Even if – they add – in principle these are projects that are of apparent interest both from the point of view of the livestock sector and the agricultural sector”.
