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Pig Business: O odvrácené straně evropských farmových chovů se bude debatovat v Bruselu
“Ban large-scale farming,” says MEP
As the architecture of the Common Agriculture Policy is being debated in Brussels, MEPs and leading farming, environmental and animal welfare NGOs will explore the hidden costs of factory farming at the European Parliament on 9 February, following a special screening of the controversial documentary /Pig Business/.
The event will showcase how European taxpayer’s money, via the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Common Agriculture Policy, has been used to encourage international conglomerates to install factory farms in the new EU member states, leading to environmental degradation, animal welfare atrocities and socio-economic downfall.
Pig farming in Europe is widely accepted to be in crisis. Low prices for pork, high feed costs, a health scandal caused by contaminated animal feed, and widespread disregard for animal welfare laws, have all highlighted the volatile and unsustainable nature of a globalised system of intensive meat production.
Tracy Worcester, Director of the documentary /Pig Business, /comments, “/Now lawmakers can decide for themselves if this industry should be allowed to continue to flood the EU with ‘cheap’, polluting, dangerous, socially and economically destructive and low welfare meat, while EU small farmers, who respect higher environmental, animal welfare and health standards, are struggling to survive/.”
The event will be hosted by José Bové MEP (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, France), Dan Jørgensen MEP (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, Denmark) and Janusz Wojciechowski MEP (European Conservatives and Reformists, Poland) in partnership with the /Pig Business /team.
The event also has the support of leading NGOs, including Compassion in World Farming, European Coordination Via Campesina, Greenpeace European Unit and IFOAM. Together with /Pig Business/, the NGOs are calling for the strengthening and enforcement of EU policy on production methods and welfare standards, as well as reform of the Common Agricultural Policy to safeguard the diversity of family farms, the welfare of animals, our environment and health. To emphasise the opportunities for reform of the industrial farming model, MEPs will be asked to undertake Pig Business’
As the architecture of the Common Agriculture Policy is being debated in Brussels, MEPs and leading farming, environmental and animal welfare NGOs will explore the hidden costs of factory farming at the European Parliament on 9 February, following a special screening of the controversial documentary /Pig Business/.
The event will showcase how European taxpayer’s money, via the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Common Agriculture Policy, has been used to encourage international conglomerates to install factory farms in the new EU member states, leading to environmental degradation, animal welfare atrocities and socio-economic downfall.
Pig farming in Europe is widely accepted to be in crisis. Low prices for pork, high feed costs, a health scandal caused by contaminated animal feed, and widespread disregard for animal welfare laws, have all highlighted the volatile and unsustainable nature of a globalised system of intensive meat production.
Tracy Worcester, Director of the documentary /Pig Business, /comments, “/Now lawmakers can decide for themselves if this industry should be allowed to continue to flood the EU with ‘cheap’, polluting, dangerous, socially and economically destructive and low welfare meat, while EU small farmers, who respect higher environmental, animal welfare and health standards, are struggling to survive/.”
The event will be hosted by José Bové MEP (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, France), Dan Jørgensen MEP (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, Denmark) and Janusz Wojciechowski MEP (European Conservatives and Reformists, Poland) in partnership with the /Pig Business /team.
The event also has the support of leading NGOs, including Compassion in World Farming, European Coordination Via Campesina, Greenpeace European Unit and IFOAM. Together with /Pig Business/, the NGOs are calling for the strengthening and enforcement of EU policy on production methods and welfare standards, as well as reform of the Common Agricultural Policy to safeguard the diversity of family farms, the welfare of animals, our environment and health. To emphasise the opportunities for reform of the industrial farming model, MEPs will be asked to undertake Pig Business’
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