😁 hehe let’s seize the little #BrusselsBubble buzz around #EUInfluencer to (re-)advertise this starter pack with plenty of interesting people to follow to talk about EU food & ag policy 🤓

“It doesn’t matter how you feel about animal rights activists, or if you’re vegetarian. You have to understand how this works. Because it’s going to be applied elsewhere.” www.desmog.com/2025/09/19/c...

“This is supposed to be about less regulation & more incentives, but everything we look at shows there's actually an increase in reasons for member states not to spend money on environmental ambition”, @ieep.eu’s D. Baldock told @natashafoote.bsky.social www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

🫵 Brussels, 23 September – join the #BackToTheFuture march! 📣 We say NO to deregulation. YES to rules for business and rights for all. 👉 Info: backtothefuturemarch.org

These are the main (food/farming/fisheries-related) initiatives for the year to come, together with a "Buy European food campaign" and a review of the implementation of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive to ensure fair prices for farmers 👇 #SOTEU commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...

“Producing more with less” was yet again the prevailing narrative at yesterday’s informal #AGRIFISH … 🙄 But more… of what? Good to see @politico.eu journalists bringing facts and nuance to this discussion - and showing what’s really behind this #FoodSecurity rhetoric.

Tomorrow, von der Leyen will address the EU Parliament with her SOTEU speech. Today, civil society and trade unions delivered a very clear message in a statement signed by 470 organisations: we need rules to protect people and the environment! corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/o...

Où l’on apprend que Matignon aurait modifié un passage de la Stratégie alimentation, nutrition et climat (SNANC) évoquant une « réduction » de la consommation de viande, malgré un arbitrage rendu en réunion interministérielle mercredi. 🙄 www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Un débat très intéressant entre Nadia Maizi et Jean-Baptiste Fressoz sur France Culture 👇 Bonne journée à tous www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

“Ministerial inaction on ill-health caused by bad diet, alcohol and smoking is so serious that NHS could collapse as a result of conditions such as heart disease & diabetes.” Likewise in the EU. CVD🫀has huge economic costs and poor diets are a leading risk factor. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Far less carbon dioxide can be safely stored underground than previously thought, scientists have said, highlighting the risks of relying on a technology that is undeveloped at the scale needed to meet global climate goals.” www.ft.com/content/7ace...

Last June, 17 CSOs and farmers representatives wrote to @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu to urge the Commission to unlock the climate action potential of #FoodSystems. 👉You can echo their message by replying to this public consultation: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... bsky.app/profile/eufp...

‪“𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀". These are stark words by Spain's Prime Minister as he was unveiling a new plan to tackle the #ClimateCrisis. He also stressed the role of sustainable farming in fighting it — and rightly so. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The @ec.europa.eu work programme for 2026 will be published on 21 October 👀👇

The @ec.europa.eu could not have chosen a better timing with negotiations on the future farm subsidies policy about to start… 👌 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Interesting! Lidl UK reports it exceeded its sales target for plant-based foods, yet the most recent surge in sales appears to be driven by whole 🌱 foods like pulses, seeds and grains rather than meat alternatives. Do the latter facilitate transition to the former? www.fdiforum.net/mag/featured...

EU climate boss @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu warns the Gulf Stream could collapse in our lifetime He says "progress takes time" – well, it also takes serious political will The EU Commission’s planned climate target for 2040 falls short of what its own climate scientists advise – that doesn't help

📢Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur, calls the export of banned pesticides by EU countries "environmental racism". "I don't see why we should tolerate that products that are too dangerous for us are not too dangerous for populations in developing countries." www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen...

Nice to see some journalists aren’t buying into Big Meat’s strategy of doubt…. H/T @politico.eu!

“I love seeing the cows and sheep in the fields, and I’m not a vegan or vegetarian,” he says. “I just think we should try harder to eat less meat and to farm in a better way.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Us trying to keep track of the *many* public consultations launched by @ec.europa.eu over the summer... Not sure this is the best way to ensure meaningful public engagement...? In case you lost track, we've got you covered in the 🧵below (⚠️ some of these consultations close very soon!)

“Without a real plan to move beyond industrial livestock farming, it is impossible to solve the problem”, Stéphane Galais, spokesperson for @confpaysanne.bsky.social said. www.euractiv.com/section/agri...

Food and feed safety rules are next on the list of EU laws to be “simplified” by the @ec.europa.eu — with a broad consultation coming soon. Genuine simplification or deregulation in disguise…? #RulesToProtect

Not food-related … but a good example that more countries should follow!

Launching several initiatives around the same time is indeed also commonplace & stretches civil society even thinner than it is already. It makes a mockery of participatory democracy & just adds to the sense that these consultations are just box-ticking exercises.

Yet another @ec.europa.eu public consultation quietly dropped over summer… This one’s on the future EU Cardiovascular 🫀 Health Plan. But the call for evidence says it will “align with the Vision for Agriculture and Food” — probably not much ambition on the diet front… 🙄 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

The climate crisis is causing food price spikes across the world, contributing to a broader cost-of-living crisis. The problem is: concerns over hardship tend to push voters into the hands of parties who couldn’t care less about climate…

Now the challenge is to ensure that these findings on #UPFs inform policies while acknowledging the complexities of cooking and its relationship to gender, socioeconomic status, and individual choices.

“People lose more weight if they cook minimally processed food from scratch than if they eat ultra-processed and ready-made foods, according to the first study to establish a clear link between ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and weight.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Pendant ce temps-là … 🙄😓

Breeding cattle for extreme traits such as hypermuscularity is associated with lower #AnimalWelfare, @efsa.europa.eu said in a new opinion. And yet Belgian Blue cattle was praised all over the weekend on TV news as the star of the Libramont agricultural fair...

“This deal provides a framework from which we will further reduce tariffs on more products, address non-tariff barriers, and cooperate on economic security.” Hopefully addressing “non-tariff barriers” won’t mean compromising on EU’s high food safety standards…

Comment le Ministre 🇧🇪 de l’Economie peut-il opposer climat et économie quand le changement climatique coûte près de 9,5 milliards par an à la Belgique ? Ce court-termisme politique est affligeant… Et quoiqu’il s’en défende, sur le social comme l’environnement, c’est la course au moins-disant.

“A clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📻 New #podcast episode just dropped! 🌶️ It's summer, so we decided to stay hot and talk about the trade tariffs the US will impose on the EU starting August 1st, and how that is linked to the EU Commission's deregulation wave 🎧 Teaser below + full epiode here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/35PG...

With the Farm to Fork Strategy, the EU made great strides toward implementing a true #FoodSystems approach. Sadly, progress has stalled. This new @fao.org report is a timely reminder of why it matters — and how to get back on track! 💪 #ThinkFoodSystems

“The study found that the food price surges often followed extreme weather by just a few months — a pattern the researchers warned was likely to become more common as climate change intensifies.” www.ft.com/content/66b0...

New research finds that dietary intake plays a far greater role than reduced energy expenditure in the elevated prevalence of obesity associated with economic development (and finds %UPFs in diet is associated with % body fat). 1/2 www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Struggling to make sense of the #MFF/#CAP announcements of this week? 😬 We feel you 😵‍💫... and we've got you covered with this 🧵collating several of our participants' preliminary reactions to the published proposals 👇

We're all waiting..... #MFF

[LEAK] While all eyes are on the budget allocated to farm subsidies, the @ec.europa.eu looks set to sneakily insert restrictions on the use of “meaty” names for plant-based foods in the proposal for a CMO regulation to be unveiled on Wednesday..

“Lawyers say the case now paves the way for suffering communities to bring replica suits across Europe, to demand justice and protection from their authorities.” 👏 Congrats to @amigasdelatierra.bsky.social @cecuconsumo.bsky.social and all those behind the case! www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

Can’t help but reusing this meme when seeing the level of double standards… Don’t remember them calling for precautionary approach and labelling for NGTs .. 🙄 www.eat-europe.eu/news/europea...

The Danish 🇩🇰 Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing the approval of 23 pesticides because the products contain active ingredients that can form and leach TFA (a type of PFAs, aka forever chemicals) into groundwater. Will other EU countries follow suit…? mst.dk/nyheder/2025...

A clever move by EPP… They can let the far-right water down (euphemism) the climate law in a way they would in fact not disapprove of, but without getting blamed for it… www.politico.eu/article/cent...

On est encore loin de la transparence sur l’origine des aliments 🙄 D’après une nouvelle enquête de la @clcv-asso.bsky.social, le label Origin’ Info est quasi absent des emballages, et l’origine est surtout affichée quand elle est 🇫🇷, pour des raisons marketing… www.clcv.org/articles/eti...

Quite a headline! Tonight, MEPs on the IMCO Committee adopted a report outlining their priorities for the revision of public procurement rules. They sent a strong signal that focus should be on more than just price for sustainable public procurement - and this applies to food procurement too!

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/...

“European Ombudsman Teresa Anjinho said that the commission risked eroding trust by pushing through its simplification drive without consulting civil society, warning against complacency as President Donald Trump rolls back oversight in the US.” www.ft.com/content/c322...

Disappointing but not unexpected… www.ft.com/content/8014...