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Avianza promotes sustainable European poultry meat among Spanish university students

INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN POULTRY MEAT CAMPAIGN

  • The conference aims to raise awareness about the European poultry sector and its work to develop and promote more sustainable production methods.
  • This program promotion of the European sustainable poultry sector, co-financed by the European Commission, has carried out two seminars at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in the Polytechnic University of Madrid and plans to organize three more events at universities during 2023

Madrid, January 10, 2023. The promotion of sustainable European poultry meat is spreading across the most prestigious faculties in Spain, where students of veterinary medicine, agri-food engineering and food sciences and nutrition are participating in seminars specially designed for them.

With the help of the Spanish Interprofessional Association of Poultry Meat (AVIANZA) and with the co-financing of the European Commission, they have already been carried out two seminars at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Both events were held in order to raise awareness about the European poultry sector and its work to develop and promote more sustainable production methods among students in fields related to agri-food and future professionals in the sector.

The seminar at the UAB took place last November at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, while at the Polytechnic University of Madrid it took place in December at the Higher Technical School of Agronomic, Food and Biosystems Engineering. 

The two events hosted a total of more than 300 students from different university careers including veterinary science, agri-food engineering and other studies with a professional future in the European poultry sector.

The speakers at these seminars have been Carlos Garcés, President of the Spanish Association of Poultry Science and vice president of the European Federation of the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) and Magaly González, expert Sustainability, circular economy and agri-food consultant. Both speakers have developed a dialogue about the European poultry sector, its involvement with the three pillars of sustainability and the added value of his professional experience in the teaching, research and dissemination fields.

The program plans to organize three more events in some of the most important universities in Spain during 2023.

Program to promote the European sustainable poultry sector

SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN POULTRY MEAT is a promotional campaign that will last two years and is supported by the European Commission. It has been launched by three national poultry associations (from Germany, France and Spain) and their framework association, with the main objective of raising awareness among European consumers about the sustainability of the European poultry sector and the high quality of its product.

The speakers Magaly González (left) and Carlos Garcés together with the professor of the UAB veterinary faculty, Ana Cristina Barroeta.

Students attending the UAB event in Barcelona.
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Purpose 2022: put into practice the kitchen of utilization

 

According to the data of the “Food waste study 2020” presented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, each Spaniard threw away an average of 31 kilos/liters of food and drink, which represents a total waste of 1,364 million of kilos/liters of food in our country. For this reason, at Avianza we want to propose a commitment for this year: the utilization kitchen.

Poultry meat, one of the richest in nutrients and most versatile when it comes to cooking, is ideal for this purpose, and we will demonstrate it to you periodically with tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes. From Michelin-starred chefs to the most famous cooking and gastronomy blogs, they have dedicated themselves to exploitative cuisine, so we encourage you to look for the recipe that you like the most, whether with chicken, turkey, quail or other birds. Delicious!

One of the keys that these chefs provide to avoid waste is to make a good purchasing plan, based on purchasing what is going to be prepared without trying to store unnecessary products in the refrigerator, which are often doomed to spoil.

Practical advice.

Another important aspect is to seek to fill our shopping basket with versatile products and what do we mean by this term? A good example would be the grilled chicken which allows us, in addition to eating it initially with a good salad, later to make croquettesas he teaches us Alfonso Lopez of Yummy Recipes. West roast chicken broth, hand in hand with Martha Miranda from the specialized website crokpotting. 

At Avianza we want to promote efficient cooking, and to do so we share several proposals for delicious and healthy recipes using that leftover poultry meat that you can get a lot of use out of.

9 dishes with leftover roast chicken

From The Foodie They bring us these tips on how «recycle the remains of the classic Dominican roastl", as its authors explain. From sandwiches, Moroccan empanadas, salads or broths.

Useful cuisine: a whole chicken and three dishes – RTVE Cocina

In the program Like Sapiens from RTVE present you with a practical session on how to make the most of (up to three dishes) that whole chicken that you can buy in your market, and which will also surely be a very economical proposal.

Turkey Dumplings

For New Year's Eve or any celebration, because turkey is a delicacy to enjoy all year round. But if you can also apply recipes like these empanadilas, even better. A proposal to do with the little ones, since avoiding waste, in addition to saving, shows values of sustainability and commitment that new generations have increasingly assumed.

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THE SPANISH LIVESTOCK-MEAT SECTOR WILL REDUCE ITS GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS BY 30% IN THE COMING YEARS

  • The sector is involved in investments of 600 million euros in the field of livestock production and 542 million in industries to move towards environmental neutrality and compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • The plan includes 529 projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 724 to reduce ammonia emissions, 220 focused on reducing emissions in transportation and another 110 investments on other aspects related to sustainability.
  • Interprofessional organizations highlight the sector's firm commitment to reducing GHG emissions, especially methane emissions, betting on more efficient livestock management, the promotion of more balanced diets and the application of sustainability and digitalization criteria in production processes

MADRID, November 5, 2021

The Spanish livestock-meat sector is working in a coordinated manner to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% (GHG) attributable to its activity, as part of its firm commitment to move towards environmental neutrality and compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as reported by the six interprofessional organizations in the sector, ASICI, AVIANZA, INTERCUN, INTEROVIC , INTERPORC and PROVACUNO, on the occasion of the COP26 Climate Change Summit, which is being held these days in Glasgow.

To achieve these reduction objectives, of which 50% correspond to methane reductions (in line with the "Global Commitment on Methane", promoted by the US and the European Union at COP26 and to which 100 countries have joined, The sector is involved in investments of 600 million euros in the field of animal production and some 542 million euros in the meat industries), which also include other objectives such as improving energy efficiency in industries and facilities. livestock, manure, manure and sewage sludge management operations, and livestock feeding and enteric fermentation,

This entire plan that is being developed to contribute to the solution to the climate change problems facing our planet is an important part of a strategic sectoral project linked to European funds, which will mobilize investments of more than 5,054 million euros to increase its environmental sustainability and its capacity for innovation, contributing to the recovery and economic transformation of our country.

1,689 companies and ranchers from all the Autonomous Communities participate in this project, of which 73.6% are SMEs, together with technological partners in the fields of the circular economy, renewable energies and digitalization.

The objective includes a total of 529 investment proposals related to the reduction of greenhouse gases, 724 proposals to reduce ammonia emissions at facilities, 220 proposals focused on reducing emissions in transportation and 110 on other aspects related to the sustainability.

Reduction of ammonia, water footprint and energy consumption

In addition to the ambitious objectives regarding the reduction of greenhouse gases, especially methane, the livestock-meat chain contemplates the reduction of ammonia emissions from the facilities of the sectors included in an average value of 28% together with a 6% in the industry.

Likewise, energy consumption in farms and meat industries will also be reduced by 38% and 22%, respectively, with the projects undertaken.

The water footprint per kilogram of final product will also be reduced by an average value of 18%, as a consequence of the reduction in water consumption after the automation and robotization of processes, the control of leaks and water escapes due to the modernization of facilities and water supply systems, as well as operations associated with the reuse and recovery of water for cleaning operations, supplying livestock or irrigating crops.

Finally, feed consumption will decrease by 15%, which will in turn lead to a reduction in GHG and ammonia emissions. And the consumption of other raw materials will also be reduced by 23% in livestock facilities and by 18% in meat industries.

The livestock-meat chain has always shown its commitment to contributing to the progress and development of Spanish society and its territory, as demonstrated by its ecosystem that generates employment, wealth, territorial structure, balanced and healthy diet and responsible consumption, in addition to its efforts to reduce the environmental impacts generated by its activity.

ASICI. The Interprofessional Association of the Iberian Pig brings together producers and processing industries of Iberian products.

AVIANZA. The Spanish Interprofessional Poultry Meat Association brings together both farms and production centers as well as cutting and processing plants.

INTERCUN. The Interprofessional Organization to promote the Rabbit Sector integrates representatives of the production branch and rabbit meat processing-marketing companies.

INTEROVIC. The Interprofessional Organization of Sheep and Goat Meat represents the producers of this livestock branch and the industrialists and marketers who generate and distribute the derived products.

INTERPORC. The Interprofessional Agri-Food Organization of White-Capped Pigs represents all sectors of the white-capped pork value chain: production, processing and marketing.

PROVACUNO. The Interprofessional Agri-Food Organization of Beef is made up of the main organizations of the production sector and the processing/marketing sector.

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Interview Beatriz Robles on the TVE program: Knowing how to live

After having seen how the chicks are cared for and pampered at an organic farm in Toledo, the nutritionist Beatriz Robles, author of the book: “Eat safely by eating everything”, he clarifies in his interview with Miriam Moreno, on the program RTVE Knowing How to Live, that eating chicken is a safe food.

As explained, foods of animal origin have stricter hygienic-sanitary conditions and therefore have to meet certain microbiological criteria when cooking them.

Yes, it is safe to eat chicken meat. It cannot be consumed rare or rare, it is a meat that must always be well cooked.

Beatriz Robles, TVE.

 There are some myths or common errors among people who think things like the ones we will see below and which the food technologist completely denies:

  • There are those who think that grilled chicken fillet shrinks in the pan because of the hormones that are supposedly administered or even that it helps them gain weight. Well, Beatriz Robles categorically assures that the use of hormones as a growth factor It is totally prohibited by law for decades and that this legislation is complied with.
  • Likewise, other people believe that chicken skin is unhealthy because things are injected into them that are then retained in the skin and are therefore full of toxins. That is totally false. Fresh meat cannot be injected with additives or brines. If these animals grow so much it is because they are selected to grow so much.
  • Finally, that water in the pan comes from the meat itself, since the 75% in it is water, and when subjected to a heat treatment, the proteins denature, coagulate, etc., and release that water.

Follow the full interview below in this video:

Source at https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/saber-vivir/como-cocinar-correctamente-pollo/5661316/