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The sins of the flesh

This week has seen much media coverage in Spain about comments by Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, to British daily The Guardian in late December about the quality of meat produced by macro-farms.

For a government minister to make statements to a foreign media as influential as The Guardian that could be interpreted as a criticism of the quality of an important export product was inappropriate, given…