💥 🇪🇺 Breaking EU Ombudsman decision! Following a complaints, European Ombudswoman #TeresaAnjinho calls hasty deregulation proposals by #EuropeanCommission maladministration! See: tinyurl.com/5t5x42uz Following 3 complaints it now seems the EC did not follow it's own 'Better Regulation' rules. 😱

Some EU decision-makers are on a mission to roll back vital nature laws. Our response to that? #HandsOffNature! Environmental laws need no fixing; they need enforcing. Leave them intact. Read more in our 'EU simplification explained' FAQ 👉 www.birdlife.org/wp-content/u...

Excellent read: how EU taxpayers’ money is going to marketing funds promoting intensive meat and dairy production (often with bogus claims) The 2020 #FarmToFork strategy committed to making the EU promotion policy more sustainable but naturally, it was another victim of the agri industry lobbying….

🥛Sugar tax, rightly, being extended to sugary dairy drinks in the UK. 🥤 A shame that it won’t cover such drinks sold in restaurants, fast food outlets or cafes where ‘freakshakes’ or ‘frappuccinos’ contain grotesque amounts of sugar, some nearly hitting the recommended daily limit in *one* drink…

“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”

European Court of Justice ruling slams Ireland on water quality, a ‘national embarrassment’. How long more will the people of this country put up with our rivers being destroyed for private profit? share.google/xzTWNuALN6PE...

We're constantly being told that pollution prevention measures are working and more time is needed to show results. But the rivers don't lie. www.independent.ie/regionals/co...

New 🇮🇹 food faux outrage just dropped 🥱 Lollobrigida upset a jar of carbonara has the wrong type of processed meat (yes really). Always reminds me of the excellent @financialtimes.com on the invention of Italian food traditions. As American as it is Italian it seems..pork jowl not until the 90s..

NEW report by @greenpeace.de 🚨 Shein's ultra-fast fashion system is based on overproduction, hazardous chemicals, and exploitation. 32% of tested garments contained hazardous chemicals exceeding limits set by the European Chemicals Regulation (REACH), including children's clothing. Read it below 👇

Some startling statistics here on agri industry infiltration in Cop30: 😫300+ big agri lobbyists present 🥓🧀 Meat + dairy lobbyists most common (72 out of 302 agri lobbyists) 👨🏻‍💻1 in 4 agri lobbyists part of country official delegations (!!) Business as usual>lobbying as usual>inaction as usual

The Common Agricultural Policy should support a shift towards #SustainableFoodSystems: moving away from low-welfare husbandry while supporting nature-friendly farming and fairer incomes. As MEPs head into talks on this policy, here are key recommendations by the @eufpc.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/3LKI1hv

More great news on the state of children’s health

Yet more special treatment for the wine industry: no debate allowed on the new 🍷 package? 🙄 I’ve been in meetings where the industry has woefully complained young people aren’t drinking enough 🍷. Why do we need these interventions to prop it up though? ‘Let the market decide’..unless it’s wine 🫠

So the EP Agri committee, so adamant that consumers would be confused by labels saying VeggyBurger or Vegeterian sausage, have voted to allow booze producers to replace health indications with a QR code Transparency seems is a one way street. Leading away from healthier and more sustainable diets.

Very sorry to read that Eurocare will be closing its Brussels office. The EU alcohol industry is a lobbying juggernaut which has maintained its unjustified special treatment for decades. With no dedicated EU public health org working on alcohol, fixing this imbalance is now even more difficult :(

Not only is the NutrInform battery (made in 🇮🇹 as an ‘alternative’ to the #Nutriscore) nowhere to be seen in Italian supermarkets (apart from a few Ferrero products 🤨), but as the programme shows, very complex and not easy to understand! A total red herring 😒

Watching the last itw I did before leaving 🇧🇪 (and @beuc.eu 😢) on the sabotage of the #NutriScore Great exposure of the unprecedented level of lobbying against a public health tool in 🇮🇹. From Ferrero to Meloni, Coldiretti to Federalimentare: shocking the effort made to stop it becoming the EU label

Something so singularly depressing to be out of the Brussels bubble for 3 months, to now see that *this* is what has been occupying our decision-makers' time... The planet burns and we're talking about whether a veggie sausage can be called a sausage, my god... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Think I need a shower after reading this exposé into the dirty tricks of the meat industry (and their paid shills) who worked relentlessly to undermine the EAT Lancet planetary diet... Having had the misfortune to engage with one of the mis-influencers mentioned, this paragraph👇 rings very true:

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! ✅