Spotted in a Belgian supermarket: buy 250g of cooked ham, get 500g extra for free...
How can this be sustainable? 🤔
👨🌾For farmers: were they paid a fair price?
🐖For animals: under what conditions were the pigs raised?
🩺For health: consumption of processed meat is linked to cancer risk.
🌲 Europe's land carbon sink is shrinking.
Fires, droughts, pests and harvesting have weakened EU forests over the last decade, leaving a projected gap of 40-55 Mt to the 2030 target.
🔗 climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/cl...
"As the world’s sixth-largest pork exporter, Denmark has roughly five times more pigs than people, and the environmental impact and animal welfare concerns of its intensive pig industry dominated the election campaign."
www.euractiv.com/news/denmark...
Alongside 20 other organisations representing civil society, health associations and medical professionals, @fern.org is calling on @ec.europa.eu to take urgent action to create healthier #FoodEnvironments across Europe.
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The full report is available here: www.foodwatch.org/fileadmin/-I...
"Poverty and inequality are not accidents; they are predictable outcomes of policy choices: how we design tax systems, regulate labour markets, value care, structure public services and decide whose needs and whose voices matter."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As part of its EU Safe Hearts Plan, the @ec.europa.eu has announced a study on ultra-processed foods (UPFs). While this initiative is welcomed, policymakers should not wait for its conclusions before acting on what we already know: poor diets are harming public health.
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You can read the letter here 👇
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foodpolicycoalition.eu/wp-content/u...
Great op-ed by @foodwatch-int.bsky.social's Suzy Sumner.
For too long, meat products like sausages, burgers, etc. have benefited from a misleading "naturalness" halo they simply don't deserve.
foodwatch's new report sets the record straight.
www.brusselstimes.com/opinion/2182...
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
"In perhaps the biggest change of all, for the first time in 130 years Denmark will not have an agriculture minister. In their place will be a minister for nature and animal welfare, with the agriculture portfolio split between that department and four others."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
