{"id":48631,"date":"2024-06-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/?p=48631"},"modified":"2024-06-09T20:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T18:56:53","slug":"catalonia-give-up-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.11onze.cat\/en\/magazine\/catalonia-give-up-food-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Catalonia give up food sovereignty?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The demands of the peasants and farmers, which are part of a European-wide unrest, present the country with a colossal challenge. The one to decide if Catalonia should be food sovereign or if it should renounce its own land. In 11Onze we have it clear: you don’t play with food.<\/b><\/h3>\n

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Everyone knows that the primary sector is essential, but it seems that we sometimes forget it. That’s why <\/span>Catalan farmers<\/span><\/a>, like Europeans, are on a war footing. The demands are simple and could be summed up in one: have some respect for <\/span>a sector that puts the plate on the table for Catalonia of the 8 million<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Excessive bureaucracy, economic suffocation and regulatory pressure are the battle horses of some farmers who see that the poor conditions in their sector discourage the possible generational change. Nowadays, the peasant is a romantic with a tractor. <\/span>People who love the land and work for it even if they don’t earn a living<\/b>. Complaints of having to sell below the cost of production are endemic, and for some time now the lack of protection of farmers against intermediaries, <\/span>large chains and the importation of products from other countries, which very often do not meet the very demanding regulations<\/b> that are asked of European farmers and ranchers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The European greyness<\/b><\/h3>\n

Catalan food sovereignty is in question, in part, due to the European regulatory scourge. The EU, governed from the <\/span>gray Brussels, pushes its convoluted regulations down<\/b>. The bureaucratic labyrinth launches itself towards the immediately lower rung of the chain and goes down through the administrations until it falls on its face in front of peasants unable to manage this hellish list. <\/span>The wisest people in the world, the ones who know how to create food, are asked to also be office workers and collect data and fill in endless forms<\/b> so that they go up the chain again and satisfy the paperwork thirst of a Brussels bureaucrat.<\/span><\/p>\n

In December 2022, <\/span>the farmer and Junts deputy, Salvador Verg\u00e9s, read in Parliament a list of the measures required of farmers<\/b>. The clip has gone viral these days as a result of the protests and, if it weren’t for the fact that it deals with such a serious subject, it would make me laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\ud83c\udf99 Ahir, al Parlament, vaig fer una llarga interpel\u00b7laci\u00f3 a la Consellera reclamant-li q redueixi la paperassa i la burocr\u00e0cia q ofega la pagesia. Aqu\u00ed en teniu un 1r v\u00eddeo, on recomano als diputats q s\u2019agafin fort a l\u2019esc\u00f3 x aguantar el ruixat d tr\u00e0mits d l\u2019exemple q hi explico: pic.twitter.com\/2flJLENVa8<\/a><\/p>\n

— Salvador Verg\u00e9s i\u2026 Tejero! (@vadorverges) December 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n