The European Parliament has moved in the face of the shortage of cereals that European countries are beginning to suffer, from the war in Ukraine, and has asked the European Commission to authorize imports of these raw materials from third countries such as the United States, Canada or Argentina — until now vetoed for being transgenic crops and that use pesticides.
The movement is supported by the Generalitat [of Catalunya], which stresses the need to temporarily relax the rule due to the exceptional nature of the situation, which, as this newspaper reported, threatens to leave the Valencian herds without food for their glens in just over a month.
Those “third countries” (United States, Canada and Argentina) currently have, according to the Spanish Confederation of Manufacturers of Compound Feed for Animals (Cesfac), surpluses of corn, sunflower seed and cake that “would serve to more than cover the needs of production” of the meat industry in Spain until the next campaign.
[Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Spanish and has been translated and edited for clarity.]
