Taking a return flight from Rome to any European capital is equivalent in terms of polluting emissions to the per capita consumption of meat and cured meats for an entire year, specified Luigi Scordamaglia. All European agriculture is responsible for just 1.38% of CO2 emissions on a global scale.
Italian livestock farms, as well as the hectares of land cultivated by our farms, are small in scale compared to the average of foreign production companies, remarked Matteo Bartolini, national vice president of Cia-Italian Farmers.