Eat less meat

Carlo Petrini, father of the Slow Food Movement, writes in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica that food quality can only be protected by drastically reducing meat consumption. "The situation has gone out of control. Labels are no longer of any help. ... To regain control over meat quality we have to sink consumption. If we eat less, the production process will slow down, the cycles will slacken and the use of artificial feed will decline. ... The only thing that can help us is a demand for quality. Labels cannot protect us from all the offences the producers are capable of committing. There is a second option, not an alternative but a complementary measure: agricultural policy must become nutrition policy in the EU. It must recognise the particularities of the sector and protect its vulnerable side."

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