Behind Closed Doors – the Vulnerability of Big Meat. #LivestockDebate
IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]
IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]
The grand political narratives around the COP21 conference in Paris will barely touch on one crucial aspect – food. And why does food matter for climate change? Well, it’s a major factor driving it yet barely gets a mention. […]
More than 1,000 French farmers blocked the border between France and Germany at six points on Monday, as part of an ongoing wave of protests by French livestock producers over below cost farmgate prices. Starting on Sunday night, the federation of farmers’ unions (FDSEA) in the Lower Rhine blocked five bridges over the river and another border crossing with tractors and improvised barricades. “We’re letting all cars through and lorries out of France,” a union spokesman told journalists, adding that foreign lorries carrying food imports would be blocked. The farming unions are encouraged by the public support they enjoy: “The French are prepared to pay more, which is encouraging,” Xavier Beulin, the national farmers’ union leader, told journalists. This expedient half-truth sidesteps the fact that supermarkets have been relentlessly grabbing ever larger margins and profiting at the expense of their suppliers and customers alike for years. During a separate action in south west France, 100 farmers stopped dozens of Spanish lorries at a motorway blockade, looking for meat and fresh produce bound for the French […]
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We’ve had the case made for less meat, for better meat, so what’s the case for no meat? […]
We delve into the details with the authors of “Food choices, health and environment: Effects of cutting Europe’s meat and dairy intake.” […]
How 50% less meat & dairy would impact Europe’s emissions, nitrogen cycle, land use & human health. […]
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A lack of joined up thinking between UK government Departments has halted a large industrial pig unit. […]
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Le Foll challenges ideas that have been the bedrock of European farming policy for the postwar decades […]
EU Commission public consultation […]
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