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Friends of the Earth Europe staged a ‘marriage made in hell’ outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels today to symbolise the threat to food and farming posed by the planned merger of the agriculture and chemical companies Bayer and Monsanto. Environmentalists, farmers, farmworkers, beekeepers, and religious and international development groups are all opposed to …
Opposition mounts to ‘marriage made in hell’ Bayer-Monsanto mega-mergerRead more
More than 200 organisations have today raised their objections to the planned mergers of six giant agriculture corporations. The farmer, farmworker, beekeeper, religious, international development, and environmental groups claim that the three resulting companies will concentrate market power and “exacerbate the problems caused by industrial farming – with negative consequences for the public, farmers and …
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As the world marks the international day of forests, researchers find that failing to provide access to nature to deprived communities could entrench health inequality. A review of available evidence points to a strong link between lack of access to nature areas and poor health outcomes and inequality. It associates nature deprivation with higher obesity …
The EU-Canada trade deal ratified by the European Parliament today is a step backward for tackling some of the world’s biggest crises and will do nothing to improve the lives of the majority of citizens in either region, according to organisations representing civil society, workers and the environment. Organisations representing civil society, workers and the …
CETA: backward step for the environment, global inequalities and workers’ rightsRead more
Foreign affairs ministers from across the EU today published their conclusions on business and human rights. Friends of the Earth Europe welcomes a reference to the UN process to establish binding rules that would force multinational corporations to respect human rights laws [1], but calls on the EU to start actively supporting this UN process. …
EU Member States today postponed a vote on relicensing glyphosate in Europe. Friends of the Earth Europe is calling for an outright ban on the controversial weedkiller, which would transform European agriculture making it greener and publicly acceptable [1]. Adrian Bebb, Senior Food and Agriculture Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe said: “The European …
