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Give peas a chance: what now for the EU Protein Plan?

18 October 2018

Every year, big factory farms in the EU rear more animals for meat than there are humans alive on Earth. More than eight billion animals is a huge number of mouths to feed – and much of the food that ends up doing this job is soy, largely imported from Latin America, and increasingly also from the USA.

25 September 2018

Manifesto for a Sustainable Europe for its Citizens

Today – on a global day of action to end poverty, reduce inequalities, and tackle climate change – a coalition of civil society organisations has launched a manifesto with core demands for the political leadership of the EU and the candidates in the 2019 European Elections.

20 June 2018

How serious a failure will the CAP reform be?

As the dust starts to settle after new EU farming rules were proposed, Adrian Bebb, food and farming campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, looks ahead at their likely impact

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Europe's current model of farming and food consumption is destroying the environment and hurting people. Industrial agriculture damages water supplies, wildlife and rural communities, and its impacts are felt heavily in developing countries.

 

Friends of the Earth Europe campaigns to stop the expansion of industrial agriculture with all its negative environmental and social impacts. We promote farming and food which respects the world's finite natural resources and is fair to farmers and consumers.

Reports & publications

Protein plan letter cover
29 May 2018

Civil society letter to Commissioner Hogan on EU protein plan

transitioning towards sustainable food cover
24 May 2018

Briefing: Transitioning towards sustainable food systems in Europe

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