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I FF4C Forum on Food Safety
We are meeting in Warsaw today for the Future Food 4 Climate coalition’s I Forum on Food Safety. This is the first nationwide event dedicated to the topics of a sustainable food system, fixing the Common Agricultural Policy and connecting the dots on the map of animal rights, human rights and climate. The forum will open with a speech by Member of the European […]
EC legislation for fish
Member of the European Parliament Rosa D’Amato, along with MEP Dr. Sylwia Spurek, asked Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides about the EC’s concrete proposals on the issue of farmed fish. The question was cosigned by more than a dozen MEPs (Members of the European Parliament), but only one MEP (Sylwia Spurek), from Poland. „The Commission confirms […]
I Food Safety Forum
November 19 (Saturday) 🌎 I Food Safety Forum of the #FutureFood4Climate coalition🌳68 civil society organizations form the first coalition for a just, ethical transformation of the food system!✍️ over 100 positions, calls to action, consultations, public hearings! We are creating an advocacy critical mass in Poland!🌼 more than 30 debates, roundtables and meetings!🌳 We join forces with councilors and decision makers: […]
Plant-based menus in canteens
Joanna Wowrzecka, councilor of the city of Cieszyn, joins the councilors for transformation of the food system. Fair transformation on plates in canteens is a task for local government. Together, we demand the availability of vegan, 100% plant-based meals for students who have chosen a diet for health, the planet and animals, and the introduction of municipal, local food policies […]
Stench, blood and tears – White Paper at FF4C Forum
We will be discussing the publication by MEP Dr. Sylwia Spurek and the Green REV Institute with expert speakers at the 1st Safe Food Forum, already on November 19, in Warsaw. „I dedicate this publication to all victims of the animal production sector – meat, dairy, egg. To the people living in the vicinity of farms, those at risk of poverty and condemned to unhealthy, unethical, unsustainable […]
FF4C & Plant Based Treaty – Open Letter #COP27
Over hundreds of civil society organizations, academics, scientists, policy makers call on #COP27 to negotiate th Plant Based Treaty. „There is no climate debate without a debate on a just, ethical, plant-based transformation of the food system”- Anna Spurek COO Green REV Institute. We’re rushing to climate hell, with a methane-emitting meat burger in one hand and a foot on the fossil fuel gas pedal”- Anita […]
“Bringing fish back to water during the elections”
We have launched a new advocacy project addressing decision-makers. We want to show that fish deserve a voice from politicians. Poland will receive more than 500 million euros under the European Funds for Fisheries Program for 2021-27, but there is no public debate about fish as sentient beings and as farmed animals. Legislation does not protect fish, which are killed in food production. In dialogue […]
Insects as animal feed? We say NO
Together with NGOs from all over the world we call IFC’s to stop supporting insect farming. We are writing to share concerns about IFC’s support for the insect feed plant InnovaFeed in Indonesia and Malaysia.InnovaFeed will produce animal feed. As such, the company will be a supplier for the unsustainable industrial livestock sector. The industrial livestock sector impacts almost all the SDGs and […]
#EUforAnimals Campaign
The #EUforAnimals campaign, launched in 2021, is still ongoing. More than 50 NGOs from Europe are calling for the inclusion of „animal welfare” in the job title of the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner. More than 100 Members of the European Parliament are supporting the effort and the campaign. The lack of consideration of animal welfare for […]
AgriWatch – monitoring of EU funds 2021-27
Today we meet with OFOP team to discuss the new financial perspective of the European Union 2021-2027 (Common Agricultural Policy 2023-27). We will be conducting watchdog activities, so as to check whether the funds under the new EU perspective support the ambitions of the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork strategy, or support those who pollute – the animal industry, industrial farms. The […]