The rise in the price of raw materials used to feed farm animals - corn is today the largest increase of the decade, while soy has reached its peak in almost seven years - makes it "very urgent" for Assocarni and Uniceb, " a constructive discussion with the large-scale retail trade on the situation of the national livestock sector.
With a joint letter addressed to Ancd, Coop Italia and Federdistribuzione, the two organizations that represent and protect the national farms, slaughtering and processing of meat, officially asked in the days I saw a discussion table in the large-scale retail sector.
"A point of no return has really been reached - says Luigi Scordamaglia, president of Assocarni - It is no longer possible to accept that the value of an excellent quality animal such as the one produced in Italy is exactly at the value paid over thirty years ago. while on the shelves the products have followed the inflation trends of these thirty years, in line with the increases in all other food products ".
And the president continues "Farmers under these conditions can only stop working and this would be disastrous not only for our extraordinary food excellence that would disappear, but above all because it would increase our dependence on foreign countries for such a necessary product, not to mention the 'abandonment of vast territories of our peninsula that would be consigned to hydrogeological degradation and desertification causing the disappearance of entire communities. breeders ". (HANDLE).