🔴Action by XR Animal to demand a halt to all #FactoryFarms.
#Meat production needs to be reduced by 83% by 2050 in 🇧🇪 to reduce greenhouse gases by 58% and nitrogen emissions by 40%. This would reduce pressure on biodiversity by 76%. #RebelForLife #StopSpeciesism
...Proximity, violence and disease are the daily lot of the animals exploited in factory farms.
No-man's-lands where cruelty is a daily occurrence and where ethical and health scandals are constantly breaking out. #AnimalCruelty
...From the mad cows (1997) to eggs contaminated with Finopril (2017), via the dioxin crisis (1999) and the massacre of thousands of poultry due to the umpteenth re-emergence of avian flu, factory farms favour the proliferation of dangerous pathologies. #zoonoses
...In addition to the costs of health care (heart disease, for example) and the regulation of these health scandals, there are the EU Common Agriculture Policy #CAP subsidies, which serve to keep the price of meat artificially low...
...The livestock sector is indeed one of the most subsidised agricultural sectors in Europe. All sectors combined, it received 51.7% of the total CAP budget in 2020. Without this aid, these farms would not be able to survive because they are so unprofitable...
This action is the first of a campaign to stop plans for new factory farms in🇧🇪. We ask the Minister of Agriculture, #DavidClarinval, to cut all subsidies for #FactoryFarms and move towards a resilient and accessible system of #PlantBased agriculture for all.
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