Index - Goodbye Cows

Almost a dozen of researchers, scientists and experts from Spanish and European universities reveal the future that awaits us if cattle farming were to disappear and why there is so much interest in this from happening.

``If you look at the lists of ingredients of those imitation products, (…) you won’t be able to find plants in those products. What you’ll find is “extracts”. Nothing that remotely looks like a vegetable.``

Frederic Leroy

Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Department of Bioengineering Sciences

``The number one thing that we could do to stop global warming is to let the grasses and the appropriate ruminants get to work.``

Lierre Keith

THE VEGETARIAN MY
THAMERICAN WRITER & FOOD ACTIVIST

``The point is not choosing between meat and peas, meat and chickpeas. The point is fresh meat versus ultra-processed plant-based foods.``

Javier López

DIRECTOR OF PROVACUNO

``it’s clear that the effects of the methane produced by animals and the impact of fossil fuels are quite different.``

Fernando Estellés

Polytechnic University of Valencia
Deputy Head of The Animal Science Department

``In the past few years, farming censuses have shown a decrease in extensive farming in Spain and this poses a big problem, as the head of livestock we have in extensive farming today is not enough to keep the grasslands we need. And I don’t mean in terms of benefits but in terms of necessary habitats.``

Sonia Roig

Complutense University of Madrid
President Spanish Society for the Study of Pastureland

``If 115,000 households who make their living out of livestock breeding see their source of income vanish, this’ll probably accelerate rural flight. Specially in those rural hinterland areas which are already badly affected by rural depopulation.``

Edelmiro López

Santiago de Compostela University
Department of Applied Economics

``Forest management, clearing or silvicultural treatment is about 3,000€ to 4,000€ per hectare. The problem is that this economic investment becomes totally unsustainable over the years.``

Edgar Juan

SGISE Forest Firefighter

``We need memory of the past to know what to do with the present and the future.``

Luis Sáez

Zaragoza University
Chair in Depopulation and Creativity

``Food fads in sustainability are two-fold. They can be wrong, promoting processes that involve plant-based foods instead of cattle farming that are equally industrial and lead to the destruction of forests and other natural ecosystems.``

María Diago

Director of the Sustainable Guide
Biologist and Environmental Expert