Óscar Noda demands the Cabildo to "commit to the opening" of the Island Slaughterhouse

The counselor of the Mixed Group in the Cabildo of Lanzarote assures that "the cost of maritime transport and the pertinent fees continue to be charged to the ranchers who see how the sale of meat becomes more expensive"

September 19 2024 (11:21 WEST)
Updated in September 19 2024 (11:26 WEST)
Óscar Noda, Counselor of the Mixed Group in the Island Council of Lanzarote
Óscar Noda, Counselor of the Mixed Group in the Island Council of Lanzarote

The counselor of the Mixed Group in the Island Council of Lanzarote, Óscar Noda, has proposed in a motion "the definitive approval of subsidies that compensate the expenses in animal transport to Fuerteventura caused since the closure of the Island Slaughterhouse."

Noda considers that "the subsidies must cover, at a minimum, maritime transport and trusts that an economic item is foreseen to grant said financial coverage."

On the other hand, Óscar Noda proposes that "the Cabildo of Lanzarote commits to opening in October the Island Slaughterhouse of Lanzarote, as promised by the president of the Cabildo on July 14 through a press release issued after a visit to the referenced center."

According to Noda, the island slaughterhouse "fulfills an essential service for our ranchers and for our livestock in general, as well as for their economic, competitive and qualitative health and, in addition, constitutes a slaughter service for animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine species, achieving the objective of being the center of hygienic and sanitary control of meat production and local consumption, which is now known as a zero kilometer product."

For Counselor Noda, "since its closure in January 2024, after a health requirement from the Government of the Canary Islands, several dates have been announced for its opening and all of them have been systematically breached by its counselor and president." Furthermore, Noda continues, they have come "to propose several lines of financing. First 300,000 euros and later, in July of this 2024, another line of the FDCAN of 500,000 euros."

All this is even more striking if we take into account that "the island administration, governed by CC and PP, has announced that an agreement has been closed with the Cabildo of Fuerteventura and that our ranchers can go there to make sacrifices of the animals, ignoring that the cost of maritime transport and the pertinent fees continues to be charged to the ranchers who see how the sale of meat becomes more expensive, producing a clear disadvantage with meat products from other latitudes."

Óscar Noda highlights that, "to add insult to injury, the president of the Cabildo has promised numerous aids to this sector, without a single item having been accredited for such purpose, without regulatory bases having been definitively approved to provide legal coverage to these supposed subsidies and, worst of all, without a concise date for the opening of the Island Slaughterhouse."

"Faced with this panorama," Noda proposes this motion in search of "a plenary agreement with an express confirmation that the Cabildo of Lanzarote is going to compensate the transport expenses to our ranchers and not delve even more into their precarious situation and, in addition, that there is a commitment to the immediate and imminent opening of the Island Slaughterhouse of Lanzarote, as it is an essential service that should not be closed," concludes Óscar Noda.

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