As it stands now, this European
farming policy still promotes intensive and industrial-scale animal agriculture.
This is not what the European citizens were asking for, neither is this what
farmers need.
Dear Manfred,
Last week negotiators struck a deal
on the European agricultural policy (CAP) for the next six years. And to
be honest, we are shocked by the outcome.
In 2019 Europe voted for green change
and Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the European Commission spoke big
words about a European Green Deal. But now she
is just agreeing to a completely outdated European farming
policy.
We need you to tell the European
Parliament to vote this CAP down.
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As it stands now, this
European farming policy still promotes intensive and industrial-scale animal
agriculture. It will
incentivise farmers to use synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, locking in
biodiversity loss and soil degradation.
It will fill the
pockets of multinationals and big land owners while putting small-scale farmers
and farming families aside.
This is not what the European
citizens were asking for, neither is this what farmers need. If we want to
prevent climate change and save our biodiversity, if we want to see farming
communities thrive and support sustainable farming livelihoods, we need
root and branch reform, or we face another decade of broken agriculture
policies, driven by a dangerous CAP.
And we are close: more and more
politicians are uneasy with how things are going. Only by working
together will we have a chance of stopping this
deal. |
Thank you for your support
,
Fernando, Rachel, Nele and Teo from
the Tilt team |
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