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Ireland Takes the EU Wheel: CAP Cash, Livestock Matters and Securing What Exactly?

From July 1, Ireland’s EU Presidency promises to put food security, farming and fisheries centre-stage. But will it use its ...
Agricultural and Rural Convention - ARC2020

Leaked Livestock Strategy Bets on Technofixes & Pulls From Industry Playbook

You can have your cake and eat it too, according to a leaked version of the EU’s upcoming livestock strategy, which leans on ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

A sad day for democracy and science

Yesterday the European Parliament voted to open farm gates – and by extension, our plates – to New Genetic Technologies (NGTs). This is a seismic development that reveals cracks in the EU’s democratic ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The EU just opened its doors to new GMOs – but you won’t know if they’re on your plate

After years of intense lobbying, negotiation, and semantic gymnastics, it’s official. Europe is set to open its farm gates and plates to new genetic technologies, without the guardrails of labelling, ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

What happens when our seeds go silent?

As EU lawmakers prepare to rewrite rules governing the production, exchange and sale of seeds, two opposing worlds collide. In one, seeds are intellectual property, carefully regulated and protected ...
Europe's Milk Crisis

The EU’s PFAS Pesticide Blind Spot

The PFAS panic has seen us eye everything from non-stick pans to takeaway packaging with suspicion. But what if one of the most direct routes of exposure to these ‘forever chemicals’ is not in the ...