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In March 2025, residents of As Conchas, Spain, launched a landmark legal case against national and regional authorities over decades of pollution from industrial pig farms. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit that could reach the European Court of Human Rights and have reverberations across Europe. This guide explores how factory farming continues to harm health, nature, and …
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Last week, dozens of activists and representatives of local communities from across Europe gathered in Bétera, Spain, to protest the More Holstein industrial dairy ‘farm’. The demonstration was held to support locals in their resistance against the industrial exploitation and denounce its severe social and environmental impacts. More Holstein currently exploits more than 3,000 dairy …
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The European Commission has just unveiled its Vision for Agriculture and Food, setting the stage for the future of Europe’s farming and food system. Agricultural Commissioner Hansen has kept to his promise to deliver the Vision within his first 100 days in office, while engaging in several discussions and exchanges with farmers, civil society organisations …
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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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 …
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 …
