Orbán cabinet: Planned EU ban on red meat, wine promotion ‘unacceptable’

A European Commission plan to prohibit the promotion of red meat and wine in the bloc is “unacceptable”, a state secretary of the Hungarian agriculture ministry has said.

“Brussels is not seeking solutions,” Zsolt Feldman told Hungarian public media in Brussels late on Monday after a meeting of EU agriculture and fishing ministers.

He said the Hungarian government had been helping struggling swine farmers with subsidies totalling 4 billion forints (EUR 11.2) at the height of the crisis brought about by the pandemic.

Restricting the promotion of red meat and wine “will not promote healthy lifestyles or sustainability”,

Feldman said. “Societies are able to shape their own dietary habits without artificial methods invented by bureaucrats in Brussels.”

The EU “has more and more initiatives based on ideologies rather than supported by impact studies, which could lead to shrinking production,” he said.

Feldman said 19 “reasonable” countries had expressed disagreement with the planned restrictions, and he suggested that the planned measure may contribute to “food production being shifted to third countries, jeopardising the security of supplies to the EU”.

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Juhasz Peter says:

22/02/2022 at 15:44

This agenda is to have us all eating worms and grasshopers, umh while the globalist elite eat the beef, pork and chicken. I will be XCVB#$^ if I am eating anything inferior to what the cabal have available to eat. They can take their reset and agenda 2030 ideas ond go pound sand.
Levente says:

22/02/2022 at 21:51

“The final text, unveiled on Wednesday (3 February)”say(s) that the revamping of the promotion policy for agriculture products has to be “in line with the shift to a more plant-based diet, with less red and processed meat and other foods linked to cancer risks.” -Euractiv. As usual, the Hungarian government is trying to make a mountain out of mole hill. It is not being suggested that people don’t eat red meat, just less of it, partly for health reasons and partly because of the climate impact of certain livestock farming.