They call for:
🌾 Fair farmer income support
🌱 Create the economic conditions for the agroecological (e.g., organic) transition
🚜 Make farming attractive
🌿 Invest in ecosystems and support farmers in the transition
❌ End harmful subsidies
💶 EU budget that delivers on public goals

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🤝We fully support these local initiatives in having their demands taken seriously. Current biogas targets are unrealistic to achieve in a sustainable way and risk locking us into dependence on big livestock factories.

The National Biogas Concern Group is part of our StopTheBiomethaneRush Coalition and has made a crucial contribution to the biomethane booklet: foodrise.eu/stopthebiome...

We’re revealing the downsides of biomethane that the industry won’t tell you about 🫢

Find out more here: foodrise.eu/stopthebiome...

❌ Turning manure into biogas doesn’t eliminate enteric emissions from animals, which are actually much higher (48%) than emissions from manure (only 17%) itself.

🗣️ Give local communities a real voice at the decision-making tables where policies and biogas development plans are made.

🐄 A large share of biogas is produced from manure - and the industry expects this will contribute to a third of total EU biomethane production by 2030. Let’s not depend on industrial animal factories - not for our food ánd not for our energy.

💡Curious which banks are financing these harmful practices? (Spoiler: Rabobank and ABN Amro are among the biggest backers)

Read our report here: foodrise.eu/fishy-financ...

And it gets even better: the government is now revising the entire national aquaculture plan — including new criteria, zoning locations, and – critically – a commitment to public participation in decision-making.

👏Congratulations Poros — proof that when communities fight back, the tide can turn.

The Greek Ministry of the Environment has announced its unanimous decision to cancel the massive fish farm expansion planned for the island: a scheme that would have increased farming by 28 times, swallowing up a quarter of the coastline and producing more seabass and seabream than all of France😨