industria della carne

The factory farming industry, following the lessons of fossil fuel companies, has lobbied significantly for EU climate policies to be weakened.To date, already a third of European measures to reduce emissions has been compromised by the industry.To make it known, a relationship of the independent expert group InfluenceMap, which examined the lobbying campaigns conducted in the EU over the last three years by 10 companies and 5 trade associations relating to the meat and dairy industry.The focus was in particular on 6 key ecological policies, such as the industrial emissions directive or the Farm to Fork strategy.Companies involved in breeding and meat production - such as Arla, Danish Crown, Tonnies group, FrieslandCampina, Vion food group - have specifically promoted the most critical and influential positions.The report also suggested that some meat industry giants have used their trade associations to advance their interests, thus protecting themselves from unwanted controversy. Inf...

In the end it is decided, the EU has officially spared intensive farming more stringent measures regarding cutting polluting emissions.In particular, from the revision of directive on industrial emissions, cattle farms have been kept out, while some thresholds have changed for pig and poultry farms.The decision will be valid at least until 2026, the year in which the Commission will have to evaluate whether or not to review the decision.Despite numerous criticisms from the environmentalist world, the provisional political agreement was reached last Tuesday by the European Parliament and Council. Overall, the new rules should ensure better prevention and control of resulting pollution from emissions from large agro-industrial plants, as well as the reduction of waste production and the optimization of the use of raw materials and energy.In this regard, although the impact of cattle farming is now widely known, the choice still fell on confirming the position already expressed by the Eur...