Food scarcity as a result of climate change is something we're not speaking about enough, and while the worst effects will be felt in the Global south, the north will feel it too. Already our weather and growing patterns are altered, and it will be difficult to adapt to such unpredictability.

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

😵‍💫Another win for the alcohol industry at the expense of people’s health. The lobby was incredibly intense to prevent simply informing consumers on the harm alcohol use has on their health. Extremely disappointing to see a government jettison labels at the behest of such pressure…

💡 Denmark’s Plant-Based Action Plan shows the way: built on trust, backed by business, welcomed by consumers. Now 130+ orgs call for an EU-wide plan + Protein Diversification Strategy. Let’s scale this! Check the full joint blueprint here 👉 www.beuc.eu/reports/blue... #ProteinDiversification

Interesting -🇨🇭will require disclosure➡️consumers when meat comes from animals mutilated w/o pain relief. Ideally, these mutilations would be banned or better, not ‘necessary’ in the 1st place. But it’s a transparency boost + much needed-consumers are poorly informed about animal welfare practices..

So, for JCDecaux, paying for billboards to advertise junk food is 👌… but renting advertising space to give children a commercial break and protect their health isn’t 🙄 Well done to @biteback2030.bsky.social for their #CommercialBreak campaign! www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/252331/...

New ridiculous health claim on food just dropped… Anti-aging granola 🙃

‘Scientists say climate breakdown caused by the burning of fossil fuels means more frequent floods and droughts are likely in the UK.’ Almost as if the biggest risk to food security is the climate crisis…🤔

🌱Good news buried in this article is that consumers are almost unanimously (91%) willing to try *plant * based alternatives to meat. As the 🇩🇰 minister says, we need to enact policy levers to make that shift ‘easy and tasty’ instead of blaming. @eu2025dk.bsky.social should have lots to share!

And this is not even a concern for most consumers, as long as the label is clear! ➡️ tinyurl.com/BEUCVeggieBu...

✍️We've written to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu reiterating consumer groups’ position that the #GreenClaimsDirective is essential to build consumer trust in markets. This comes after @ec.europa.eu announced on Friday that it was withdrawing the legislation. www.beuc.eu/letter/green...

You may claim being green or you may decide not to do it. But customers deserve respect. We should honour their trust and ensure a reliable information support.

😔Child obesity rates in England set to rise in *90%* of the country. Of course the areas most affected are also the most deprived. Who can doubt that the food system is broken? And at what point does the drastic deterioration in children’s health see a policy response at the necessary scale?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Medicalisation of public health: a narrative review Yep This stuff matters enormously The medicalization of population health policy is a significant risk to, well, health Read alongside Lantz pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37096631/

Would any parent be reassured knowing that the food industry decides what's acceptable to be advertised ▶️ their kids? Our @beuc.eu report on EU self-regulation underlines the need to end this failed experiment. Time to put children's health first + #stopmarketingtokids tinyurl.com/pledgebeuc

🤳🍟Unhealthy food ads impact childhood obesity. And kids are inundated by them. As European governments start to act to protect children, the 🇪🇺 continues to allow food companies to set their own rules. @beuc.eu outlines in this article why this needs to stop👇 www.euractiv.com/section/heal...

🚥 So who said the #NutriScore was over? Fantastic news as Romania prioritises consumer interests and approves the use of the label + officially notifies it to the Commission. Let the momentum continue 👀 technical-regulation-information-system.ec.europa.eu/en/notificat...

Live from our event “An EU Action Plan for Plant-based Foods", hear from BEUC's director general Agustín Reyna 👇

MEP @marianoichl.bsky.social ‘sets the table’ for today’s consumption panel: The #StrategicDialogue had a clear demand for an EU Action Plan for Plant Based Foods. It’s not about telling consumers what to eat it’s about making the healthier and more sustainable choices easier for them!

. @beuc.eu Director @arcapde.bsky.social highlights the potential of an EU Action Plan for Plant Based Food to: ❤️ Improve Public Health 🌍 Protect the planet 💶 Create business opportunities It can improve consumer choice + respond to their demand for healthier more sustainable food options!

🌱Packed room at today’s event in the @europarl.europa.eu on plant based foods. Clear interest from across the political spectrum about how the EU can move to more production *and* more consumption of #plantbased food!

🥤‘It can’t be up to parents, grandparents + other concerned individuals to regulate this massive industry + its insidious advertising.’ ⚽️Nice article on why #CocaCola pays💰for sports sponsorship (+ why it should be stopped from doing so)👇 www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

🚨 Last chance to register for our 11 June event "An EU Action Plan for Plant-based foods". Spots are filling fast, make sure you get yours today! 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1GKk...

Fast fashion is becoming ultra-fast. SHEIN delivered 315,000 collections in 2022, compared to 6,850 for Zara and 4,400 for H&M 🤯 On #WorldEnvironmentDay 🌱 read more about the environmental impact of SHEIN's use of dark patterns fuelling over-consumption: www.beuc.eu/sites/defaul...

Most consumers think that imported food products respect the same rules as those produced in Europe. But it's not always the case, especially when it comes to animal welfare standards. Consumers are worse off when it comes to food. Read more about our consumer survey on animal welfare ⤵️

Our Head of International @leaauffret.bsky.social is in the 🇪🇺 Parliament at the Roundtable on the on the Reciprocity of Agricultural Production Standards in Trade with MEPs Charles Goerens, Benoît Cassart, Marta Wcisło, Camille Laureti, and Eric Sargiacomo. Here's why it's important for consumers 👇

🌱Interested in attending our event An EU Action Plan for Plant-based Foods on 11 June in the European Parliament? 🥕 Check it out and register 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/1GKk...

What is the life of an 11-year-old boy worth? It’s a question we have been grappling with in Brussels since the horrific events of Monday evening, when a small boy was killed under the wheels of a police car in Parc Elisabeth. BN #105: An Elisabethan Tragedy open.substack.com/pub/brussels...

At today’s @euractiv.com conference Agri commissioner @christophehansen.bsky.social underlines the importance of reciprocity on #animalwelfare for both agricultural producers + NGOS. Our @beuc.eu survey showed indeed that this is very important to consumers too 👇 www.beuc.eu/sites/defaul...

🥣Breakfast cereal industry-funded paper says breakfast cereals are healthy shocker. But what about the fact cereals are one of the biggest contributors to sugar intake? Unfortunately the word ‘reformulation’ doesn’t appear once. Instead ‘policy messaging’ (ie consumer education) is preferred 🙄

🥩🍗🥓 In the UK, as in 🇪🇺, meat consumption is too high incl. for processed meat. 🔽Interesting new report on: 🍽️ Who eats the most & where? 🌎 Why it matters? 🫛How can we ↘️ consumption? Recommendations include: procurement, a plant based food strategy + mandatory reporting! ✅

⌛Block, amend, delay. Classic industry tactics win out as UK minister confirms the junk food ad restrictions will be again delayed. Childhood obesity levels are through the roof - where's the urgency from policymakers to match the scale of this health crisis? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🇩🇰 announces that marketing of unhealthy food to children under 15 will be banned 🍟🤳 🏆Big consumer win that will ensure better protection of our children from persuasive unhealthy food marketing including by influencers. 👏 to our member @forbrugerraadet.bsky.social www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

🏆Consumer WIN!🏆 🍟🤳Denmark announces that it will ban unhealthy food marketing to children under the age of 15. This comes after tireless campaigning by @beuc.eu 🇩🇰member @forbrugerraadet.bsky.social to better protect children from persuasive unhealthy food marketing including by #influencers 👏👏👏

If FT are right about this announcement it will be yet another example of ambitious public health policy being announced and then quietly watered down before implementation

⚠️Un-beli-iev-able! Not only are junk food ad rules being delayed *again* (after heavy lobbying), it looks like brand marketing will be allowed. This means that brands like #CocaCola can simply swap their full-sugar can for the practically-identical zero sugar one in an ad + be deemed compliant!

“on the whole, the industry-funded red meat studies neglected to compare red meat to the full range of foods people might eat — including food we know to be good for the heart like whole grains or plant-based protein sources such as tofu, nuts or legumes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/w...

‘Our global food system is not nourishing us. The good news is we now know why, and we know enough to turn things around. We need to harness the growing body of evidence and experience from around the world to propel us forward into a better food future – one with people + planet at its heart.’ 💯

🗣️ What did @beuc.eu raise with the Commission today? 🥗 Where’s the food? Demand-side policies are vital but lacking on #EBAF work programme! 🧑‍🌾 On the #CAP, consumers want: ⚖️ A much fairer + more targeted policy, which helps farmers who need it most 🌱 Sustainable practices to be rewarded

👀Absolutely fascinating insight into the tone the UK food industry feels it can take when lobbying public authorities to amend food policy to their liking. Reads more like demands of a disappointed boss than an industry stakeholder talking to govt authorities…

Our @beuc.eu 🇪🇸 members @cecuconsumo.bsky.social and #OCU highlighting the main messages of our new survey report on the CAP: 👉Currently, the CAP is not fully in line with social and environmental concerns of consumers 👉The future CAP needs to better align with consumer priorities

Our @beuc.eu 🇩🇪 member highlighting the consumer priorities from our new survey for the next CAP👇 🥗64% want subsidies to go only for the production of healthy and sustainable food 🐖78% want subsidies ➡️ better #animalwelfare 💶72% said it was important that subsidies ensure reasonable prices

According to a new report by @beuc.eu a striking 81% of consumers find it important that EU subsidies for agriculture support improving animal welfare. The next #CAP must reward farmers who adopt higher environmental & welfare standards benefitting the planet & animals.

The #CAP is failing both farmers and consumers. Many consumers feel that key social and environmental goals they prioritise have not been met by the EU's farm subsidies policy — which is up for review with a proposal expected in mid July. Time for change?

Our @beuc.eu 🇸🇮 member: ‘Consumers are a key link in the food chain, as it is their purchasing decisions+ contributions to the budget that enable + sustain the system. But their views + preferences are often overlooked.’ 🗣️ It is important their voice.. is taken into account in the future CAP’

“They’re going to need psychological counselling, behaviour change, nutritional support from that moment on to help them sustain healthier behaviour in the long term, to keep the weight off” Is that it? No change to junk food environments? Business as usual? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🧑‍🌾Our new report on consumer attitudes▶️the CAP is out👇 🙂 6/10 have a positive view about agriculture BUT.. ⚠️A significant number don't think CAP subsidies are fully achieving key consumer priorities e.g.: 💊Reducing antibiotic or pesticides use 💵Food affordability We need a #CAPforConsumers too!

Our new report on consumers’ priorities for the next EU Common Agricultural Policy is out! Check out the main takeaways 👇 Read the full report: www.beuc.eu/reports/comm...

We're following @agoraagrar.bsky.social and @iddri.bsky.social webinar on national food policies. 🚨To shape fair #FoodEnvironments: 👉Information & labelling isn't enough 👉Need for policies addressing affordability, availability & appeal of healthy + sustainable food #GoodFood4All

"Despite making climate pledges and setting net zero goals, many supermarkets have yet to publish concrete, costed action plans to deliver them." Jessica Sinclair Taylor of @feedbackglobal.bsky.social discusses why UK retailers' climate commitments aren't delivering and how they can improve 👇