Why does a similar headline - encouraging Europeans to eat less but bettermeat (to reduce reliance on imported feed, support climate adaptation and mitigation, and improve public health) still seem completely unimaginable?

Inflation hits the stomach, again Hormuz shutdown goes against the grain

www.ft.com/content/c5d0...

This meme would be funny if it weren’t pointing to a looming food price crisis…
Fertiliser crisis? Boost supply, compensate farmers, repeat 🙄
Only by transforming #FoodSystems can we truly reduce dependence on fossil fuels and fertilisers - yet we keep repeating the same mistakes.

Releasing agriculture from the food security mandate The state of food security is achieved if no one has to worry whether or how they can acquire—typically purchase—healthy and nutritious meals. In theory, food security could be addressed from two side...

Haven’t been posting here for a while, but THIS👇 is spot on: “Releasing agriculture from the expectation of delivering evercheaper food is not abandoning food security. It is the only way to ensure food security in the long run.” 🎯
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We can’t simply techno-fix our way out of the EU agrifood system’s climate impact. A systemic transition is needed.
This is one of the key messages in today’s @esabcc.bsky.social report on climate and agriculture.
climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eus-agr...

The @esabcc.bsky.social recommendations in a nutshell:

EU’s agri-food system must prepare for rising climate risks and accelerate emission reductions

In a new report released today, EU's top scientific advisers on climate set out a clear roadmap for reducing emissions from agriculture and ensuring EU's agri-food systems prepares for rising climate risks 👇
climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eus-agr...

En Croatie, défenseurs de l’environnement et professionnels de l’élevage unis contre des projets avicoles ukrainiens Des milliers de Croates ont protesté dans les rues de leur capitale, Zagreb, contre deux mégaprojets avicoles, portés par des investisseurs ukrainiens. Cette initiative d’un collectif d’associations e...

Family farmers and environmental organisations share far more common ground than is often acknowledged. In Croatia, they are standing together to oppose poultry megafarms owned by Ukrainian oligarchs.
www.ouest-france.fr/economie/agr...

The European city banning all fossil fuel and meat adverts in public Amsterdam initially proposed the move in 2020, becoming the first city in the world to do so.

“Amsterdam is set to ban climate-damaging advertising in public spaces, following a trend spreading across Dutch cities.
The capital of the Netherlands will prohibit both fossil fuel and meat adverts under the new measure.”
www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

Selling Nature: the EU's role in creating markets for biodiversity As the ecological crisis accelerates, the EU is promoting “nature credits” as a supposed solution – inviting markets to help fix what markets have helped destroy. Forests, wetlands, coastlines and far...

#NatureCredits won’t save nature, they’ll commodify it.

We can’t keep inviting markets to 'fix' what they helped destroy. The carbon credits fiasco is proof enough

So why is the EU Commission pushing this? Read our 🆕 study with @rosaluxeu.bsky.social on the motivations & interest groups behind it👇

Welfare for the rich: up to 40% of CAP money goes to 1% of recipients - Greenpeace European Unit A tiny fraction of rich landowners and industrial farmers siphon off the lion’s share of the EU’s subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), with a wealthy 1% of recipients taking as much a...

Who pockets the #CAP money?
New @greenpeace.eu’s briefing shows that up to 40% of the EU public’s money spent on farm subsidies go to 1% of wealthy recipients. Not farmers who need it most.
Time for change?
www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...

Et si le vrai problème de l’agriculture n’était pas le Mercosur mais notre système agricole ? / Les Vergers d'Antan Actualités Et si le vrai problème de l’agriculture n’était pas le Mercosur mais notre système agricole ? Les manifestations des syndicats agricoles contre le Mercosur sont légitimes sur plusieurs poin...

“Les consommateurs, eux aussi, devront accepter de payer leur alimentation plus cher.”
Un des tabous auxquels les politiques refusent de s’attaquer (et nécessitant des politiques sociales fortes pour ceux qui n’ont pas le luxe de pouvoir choisir leur alimentation).
www.viridarium.fr/news/et-si-l...

Sadly, this 👇 isn’t from a random site promoting keto.
It’s the newly updated U.S. Dietary Guidelines food pyramid, the official advice on how Americans should eat.
Deeply disconnected from what nutrition science actually shows…

By 2050, climate change could push food prices up 20%.

Agriculture makes up 12% of EU emissions, yet agribusiness lobbyists block real climate action, like controlling harmful and dangerous levels of industrial animal production.

#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays

Agribusiness monopolies drive up food prices & crush farmers. Let's take back control of our food!

Market concentration in #foodsystems is deepening, with serious consequences for farmers, consumers & food access.

#BigAg monopolies drive up costs, limit choice, weaken farmer autonomy, & leave food systems exposed to shocks. Break them up.

#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

@eurovia.org’s M. Courgeau nails it: the fact that parts of the population struggle to afford food is not a reason to keep racing toward ever-cheaper food. We need strong social policies, transformed #FoodEnvironments and public procurement to make sustainable food accessible to all.
#EUAgriFoodDays

@greenpeace.eu’s Marco Contiero denounces the lack of political will to pursue a true #FoodSystem transformation. Rolling back environmental protections will hurt farmers, who need stability, a clear direction of travel, and fair remuneration for their work.
#EUAgriFoodDays

“The agroecological transition is not a choice”, @eurovia.org’s Mathieu Courgeau tells #EUAgriFoodDays. Farmers want fair prices, policy coherence (trade), a long-term perspective - yet political responses are moving in the opposite direction, with deregulation bringing uncertainty.

“Love it, leave it, or change it.”
Fairebel was born out of some Belgian dairy farmers’ frustration with the CAP and their determination to earn a fair income from their work.
Today, FairCoop’s President shares this success story of fair remuneration with the #EUAgriFoodDays audience.

At #EUAgriFoodDays, MEP Elsi Katainen reflects on the post-2027 CAP proposal and what it means for farm subsidies, and flags the upcoming review of the #UTP Directive (Unfair Trading Practices) as a key priority to ensure farmers get fair and remunerative prices from the market.

As #EUAgriFoodDays kick off, the moderator asks people to raise their hands by sector - but forgets to ask who’s from civil society… 🙃

EU Omnibus: Leading scientists from many disciplines call for better -not weaker- protection against pesticides A coalition of leading scientists from many countries call on the European Commission to improve the protection of the environment, biodiversity and citizens' health against harmful pesticides. A lett...

A coalition of leading scientists calls on the @ec.europa.eu to improve the protection of the environment, biodiversity and citizens' health against harmful #pesticides. They ask the Commission to drop the idea of weakening the pesticide regulation.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...

What a ridiculous waste of everyone's time. The world is literally on fire and this is what gets attention and resources??

Synthetic chemicals in food system creating health burden of $2.2tn a year, report finds Scientists issue urgent warning about chemicals, found to cause cancer and infertility as well as harming environment

"There’s been this incredible increase in rates of NCDs. There’s no single factor there … but the evidence is very clear that increasing exposure to hundreds, maybe even thousands of manufactured chemicals is a very important cause of disease in kids.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Feeding the Problem: the dangerous intensification of animal farming in Europe - Greenpeace European Unit Industrial production and excessive consumption of meat and dairy products have grave impacts on our climate, our environment and our health. Europe’s consumption habits and production levels have wid...

And @greenpeace.eu also has insightful data about how industrial agriculture is diverting food away from people 👇
#FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness #EUAgriFoodDays
www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...

Check out this report by @ciwf.eu to read more about it:
www.ciwf.org/media/3bcflr...
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Can the EU chart a sustainable transition to greater protein self-sufficiency? A combination of production-related measures and healthier, more plant-based diet can help tackle EU’s vulnerability related to high-protein feed and benefit the environment.

Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe.
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness
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🚨Industrial agriculture consumes most of our food, while millions go hungry in Europe.
Most EU farmland isn’t supporting people - it’s feeding factory farms.
That’s land we need to grow real food and nourish communities.
#EUAgriFoodDays #FeedPeopleNotAgribusiness

Updated Dutch eating guidelines advise more legumes 🫘 🫛 and less meat (less than 200g red meat/week). The Dutch Health Council said a more plant-based and less animal-based diet is better for health and benefits the environment.
#PutChangeOnTheMenu
www.healthcouncil.nl/documents/20...

Well, let’s try at least! Even far right voters may not want their kids’ food to be tainted with toxic pesticides after all…