The following article is an excerpt from Ecosprinter’s 2021 printed edition on a just transition. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a EU subsidy scheme for the farming sector which makes out about one third of the EU’s budget….
Category: Food Systems & Animal Rights
To meat or not to meat? – survey results
How do people, who consume meat or abstain from eating meat, see their habits and how do their habits influence them? In May 2015 the Food Systems & Animal Rights Working Group of the Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) conducted a survey on the consumption of meat. The survey aimed to provide a clearer…
FYEG’s Meat Consumption Survey
Members of the Federation of Young European Greens’ Working Group on Food Systems and Animal Rights are conducting this survey on meat consumption. It is intended to provide a clearer picture of the proportion of people who consume meat, why this is so, and how people relate to animals. The survey should take no more…
On GMOs and Global (In)justice
Written by the activists of the FYEG Global Justice Working Group and the FYEG Food Systems and Animal Rights Working Group. This weekend, thousands of people worldwide marched against the multinational biotech corporation Monsanto. 400 cities in more than 40 countries participated with an abundance of protesters showing people power against unethical GMO experiments. GMOs (genetically…
GMOs on the European Menu
The new legislation, approved the 13th January by 480 votes to 159, allows EU member states to restrict or ban the cultivation of genetically modified organism (GMOs) crops on their territory. More flexibility for member states that from next spring, they can negotiate directly with the companies and they can even ban the cultivation of…
What is Food Sovereignity?
Thanks to our friends at Earth in Brackets from the US, we are sharing their guide ‘What is Food Sovereignity?‘. Earth in Brackets is a group of university students from the College of the Atlantic who tackle many environmental, social, and development issues. Check out their site for more interesting primers on a host of…
Home made carambars®
According to legends, Carambar® would have been born from a mistake, in the Delespaul-Havez chocolate factory, in the North of France : during a test for a sweet made of caramel and chocolate, a machine broke down, producing eventually a a rod-like sweet, called immediately “Carambar ® “. Since then, the caramel sweet has become…
The Ecocooker : food for thoughts and vice-versa
Argh, October is coming and with it, cold air, despair and hunger. But The Ecosprinter might have found you a solution for the last of these, through a special page on what everybody really cares about (we all know this “Environmental protection” thing is a joke, no? yes, maybe…?) : I called ……………………………FOOD ! Each…
Study on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) shocks
A research on genetically modified corn has sparked reactions of shock. A French university conducted a secret scientific study on the effects of the genetically modified corn and the ‘Round up’ pesticide produced by Monsanto company. The revelations of the survey that have gone public have astonished the whole world.
What a Waste!
In Glasgow only 26.8 % of all waste is recycled, the remaining 73.2 % are processed in an industrial sorting plant, which one wishes divides glass from metal, paper from plastics. In fact, the remaining 73.2% go straight to landfill. The Scottish government has ambitious targets to recycle 50% of all municipal waste by by…