Tell MEPs that the lowering environmental standards in the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a threat to farmers, nature and our future food security.
[This is a Greens/EFA campaign. This is politicial by nature. I hope that’s ok here.]
Farmers are heavily dependent on environmental conditions to produce anything. Destroying nature in the process of farming means in the medium term your killing your own profession.
And how is this relevant now? This cap has just started and it is like 5 years until the next one.
It’s relevant because a CAP reform package is being voted upon next week:
Last week, the European parliament voted overwhelmingly in favour of following ‘urgent procedure’ to speed up the package scrapping the green in the CAP. (Note that among our MEPs, Giorgos Georgiou at least voted against this motion, while Eleni Stavrou and Demetris Papadakis voted for). Following ‘urgent procedure’ for a proposal of this magnitude and impact is deeply questionable on democratic grounds. Add to this the fact that the reform was developed following an ad-hoc consultation process that lasted no more than one week (!) and involved only four big EU farming organisations – two of which were against the deregulation (!) – and a worrying precedent is being set.
The European parliament is expected to vote on the package before the end of April. If approved by MEPs, the ‘removal the green’ gets formally adopted by the European Council, signed by the representatives of the council and the European parliament and published in the Official Journal. If all goes to plan, the ‘deregulation’ will enter into force before the end of Spring…
Farmers are heavily dependent on environmental conditions to produce anything. Destroying nature in the process of farming means in the medium term your killing your own profession.
It’s relevant because a CAP reform package is being voted upon next week:
(Emphasis mine, source)