Posted on 6/6/2023
The concept of “macrofarms” that has become so popular lately as a result of the statements of the Spanish Minister of Consumption, is not an existing livestock model as such, but a semantic debate that has caused controversy. It is an invented concept to describe those livestock farms or intensive farms of industrial dimensions.
In fact, the term “macrofarm” has become, as Carlos Buxadé Carbó, professor of Animal Production in this article, affirms, a word of a pejorative nature to refer to business livestock production.
This livestock system seeks the highest meat production, at the lowest cost and in the shortest possible time, but this does not mean that it is counterproductive because there...