orla guerin, bbc news, brasilia. a row has broken out in spain — over meat consumption.nister suggested his fellow countrymen should eat less meat for their own health — and the planet's. courtney bembridge reports. it is a country famed for its dry cured ham, chorizo and sausages. spaniards love their meat more than any other eu country, slaughtering 17 million pigs, cows, sheep, goats, horses and birds every year. so many spaniards were surprised to hear their consumer affairs minister, alberto garzon, saying this... translation: what would you think if i told you that l excessive meat consumption harms our health and also our planet? without the planet, we have no life, without the planet we have no salaries, no economy, and we are destroying it and we have a direct impact on one of the parts that we are destroying it. we can change our diets and improve the state of the planet. his comments came underfire from, you guessed it, the agriculture minister who said it denigrated the work of the country's farmers. then the prime minister, pedro sanchez, interrupted a trip