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Creating pathways for sustainable animal farming in the EU

The future of European animal farming sector has been central in the 2024 Strategic Dialogue on EU Agriculture. Its outcome report proposes that the European Commission ’set up a process for developing a strategy on the key role of animal farming based on robust scientific evidence and the consultation of all stakeholders concerned’ – a process welcomed …

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Corporate spotlight on the meat and feed industry

Major agribusiness are pushing smallholder farmers out of business by taking over the whole production process and monopolising the market. This rise of corporate capture in the livestock farming sector has come hand-in-hand with accelerated environmental destruction, climate chaos and the exploitation of human rights. The biggest corporations in the agribusiness sector, including Big Meat …

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The true cost of factory farming

A look at Europe’s intensive agriculture sector Small-scale farms, particularly those specialised in animal farming, have faced an existential crisis in the last decades, with many forced out of business. Capturing the meat processing and production industry, corporate monoliths like Vion Food Group, Danish Crown, Groupe Bigard and Groupe LDC have tightened their grip, leaving …

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Nowy Dwór, Poland: a case to defeat an expanding animal factory

In the small village of Nowy Dwór, northwestern Poland, in the Złotów, local residents found themselves at the heart of a struggle against the expansion of industrial agriculture. A pig farm with 2,000 animals, located in the middle of the village, had already disrupted its residents’ life, causing intense odours, air pollution and health risks. …

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Local power: meet a leading voice in Spain’s fight against animal factories

Remedios Bobillo, also known as Reme, hails from Mota del Cuervo, a small municipality in the province of Cuenca, about 100 kilometres inland from Madrid, Spain. In 2018, her life took a significant turn when she found herself leading a local resistance against a proposed pig factory in her village. Her fight soon grew into …

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