The controversy over the words of the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, on macro-farms is set to continue until the elections in Castilla y León. In Madrid there is no minister or party spokesperson who is not asked by journalists for their opinion on the debate. It is also present on social media, and the archive has revealed that the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, defended in a message recorded a few days before the elections of 10 November 2019 the same theses as the minister whom he criticised on Monday. "We have to reflect on the reduction of meat consumption, bet on sustainable, smaller-scale farming of greater environmental and social value, which generates jobs in rural areas," he said.

The Spanish government has disavowed the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, for his criticism of industrial livestock farming, and it is not the first time it has done so in recent months. In an interview published in British newspaper The Guardian he stated that megafarms "They pollute the soil, they pollute the water and then they export this poor quality meat from these ill-treated animals." "It's a worse quality meat, it's ill-treatment of animals and it has a huge and disproportionate ecological impact," he said in Spanish, according to the transcript he posted on his Twitter account. Despite the fact that the interview is from December 26th, this Tuesday controversy arose when some media retrieved it: in English the term poor quality instead of worse was used, and this caused opposition parties and meat companies to attack Garzón.