Over the next two weeks, the European Parliament will discuss its opinion on the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy. COPA-COGECA’s suggested amendments to MEPs were leaked, and confirm once again the organisation’s problematic positions: a complete denial of industrial agriculture’s contribution to the climate crisis, an opposition to any reference to more healthy and plant-based diets, boosting organic agriculture or binding legal targets, as well as a call for an impact assessment of the European Green Deal (aka the old delay-and-derail tactic).
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