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Resisting animal factories: local testimonies & collective action

Over the past few decades, Europe’s food system has become increasingly dominated by animal factories, confining tens of thousands of animals into crowded, tightly packed industrial facilities. The impacts of this industrial form of animal production strongly affect rural areas and communities living close to the installations. Those impacts range from soil, air and water …

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Facing the wind: Kisbér residents’ fight against pig factory’s pollution

In the village of Kisbér, located in Komárom-Esztergom County, Hungary, a battle has been ongoing for over a decade against a pig factory and biogas plant situated just 800 metres from the village’s residential area. Despite initial promises of minimal odour pollution impacts through tree-lined areas and modern technologies, the reality is different. A bit …

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How Europe lets industrial animal farms off the hook

Unpacking the Industrial Emissions Directive This July, the European Parliament voted on its position on an update to the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED). This law package, around a decade old, is supposed to regulate dirty emissions from industrial installations. The directive covers, among others, industrial animal farming of poultry and pigs. The vote result was …

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The human and environmental costs of Europe financing industrial animal farming

This piece of research shows how some of Europe’s biggest financiers are channelling huge amounts of money into European industrial food and feed industries with harmful impacts on human rights, the environment and climate. European banks are heavily investing in some of Europe’s largest meat, dairy, and feed companies, whose global value chains are linked …

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