*[Enwl-eng] Meat that makes you sick
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We consume 50% more meat than we should - and mostly unhealthy, full of antibiotics and of low quality. On Thursday Members of the European Parliament will state whether industrial farming should be funded with our taxpayers' money. If they feel the pressure, we could convince them to fund healthy, and not poisonous, meat production farming! |
Hi,
They poison us - with the meat that we eat. Because big business swamps the market with cheap meat, we consume more and more of it, produced by abusing antibiotics, and cramming animals in horrible conditions. Hundreds of thousands of people sick from antimicrobial-resistant diseases is just one of the consequences.
And we are paying for this! As Europeans we pay 59 billion euros each year to promote harmful industrial farming: no other sector gets more money from the EU budget! [1]
On Thursday a handful of MEPs will look at what farming practices to fund with our taxpayers' money for the next 7 years. There are 41 MEPs we could convince to vote for a farming model that doesn't poison us – but only if they feel the pressure right before the vote. Send them a message that will burden their conscience while voting!
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Hundreds of thousands of people die from antimicrobial-resistant diseases each year, as animal farming abuses antibiotics in meat production, and this is expected to grow by almost 70%. [2]
We continue to use 40% of the European budget to subsidize these practices because big corporations that sell the poison this farming model feeds on don't want to go out of business.
As politicians discuss how to shape the new EU budget, we cannot leave them to decide alone how to spend our money, yet again, in a farming model that makes us sick. We only have 48 hours!
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Together,
Mika (Bordeaux), Alex (Marseille), Virginia (Madrid) and the rest of the WeMove.EU team
PS: You are not alone. Thousands of small farmers who don't agree with this farming model are on your side! Sign to support their call for healthy farming!
References:
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/sites/agriculture/files/cap-post-2013/graphs/graph1_en.pdf
[2]
https://openletteranimalfarming.com
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