Daily updates on whats new on the ARC website and in the CAP debate
Spanish farmers and environmentalists on EU budget talks
EU Buget talks get Sanish farmers and environmentalist onto the streets […]
Daily updates on whats new on the ARC website and in the CAP debate
EU Buget talks get Sanish farmers and environmentalist onto the streets […]
Ilse Aigner is asked to act to save bees […]
The Go M.A.D (Go Meet A Deputy) campaign was officially launched following the disappointing outcome of the CAP reform vote in the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (COMAGRI) in January 2013. Go M.A.D called upon Europe’s citizens to directly interact with their local Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ask how they would vote during the plenary decision on the CAP reform in Strasbourg in March 2013. We wanted to know which of the 754 MEPs would vote for a green, fair and local CAP… Find out more about the action on our campaign website here. The action was supported by 37 additional organisations across Europe. Over a period of two months, 71 meetings were held in 11 countries.
Minister for agriculture owes money to large real estate and agricultural land developer […]
Wallonia’s capital Namur is trying to force supermarkets to redistribute unsold food […]
The source of the horsemeat contamination of Irish hamburgers was finally pinpointed, with raw ingredients from Poland identified as the culprit. Irish Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has ordered close scrutiny of the Silvercrest plant, where equine DNA was found in burgers, for six months. There were three more positive tests found in readings of 7 per cent, 3.6 per cent and 1.2 per cent in three individual burger samples taken this month. All thee burgers contained products sourced from a company in Poland which has been supplying raw materials to Silvercrest in the past year. Irish Department of Agriculture then carried out further tests on the actual raw material, which showed significant levels of equine DNA – 4.1 per cent. Late last night, the results of further tests came through. All were positive for equine DNA – with even higher results than the 4.1 per cent, the greatest being over 20 per cent. The same Polish food component was responsible for the 29.5 per cent reading of equine DNA contained in one Tesco burger tested […]
Members of Meine Landwirtschaft met up with French minister for Agriculture, Mr Stephan Le Foll […]
Romania’s presence during Berlin’s Green Week […]
Civil society responds […]
Ahead of Cameron speech […]
Prince Charles on nature […]
More on UK GM plaudits […]
New report on meat eating […]
Joins 8 other EU States […]
Public told to embrace GM crops […]
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