‘Poor meat and ill-treated animals’: Spain in uproar over minister’s remarks

Government distances itself from Alberto Garzon's Guardian interview amid outrage in meat industry

Claims by a Spanish government minister that factory farming is damaging the environment and leading to the export of poor-quality meat have provoked a furious backlash after his comments were published in the Guardian.

In an interview published on Boxing Day, Alberto Garzon, the minister for consumer affairs, defended traditional grazing as an environmentally sustainable means of cattle farming".