Projection Débat - Parlement Européen - The Hidden Costs of Factory Farming - Pig Business
Projection Débat - Parlement Européen - The Hidden Costs of Factory Farming - Pig Business
Débat au parlement Européen : " The Hidden Costs of Factory Farming"
Date, lieu, heure :
9 February, 2011
15h00
Paul-Henri Spaak building, Room P1A002 European Parliament, Brussels
Sponsored by three MEPs:
- Janusz Wojciechowski MEP (European Conservatives and Reformists)
- Jose Bove MEP (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance)
- Dan Jorgensen MEP (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats)
The event will focus on :
- Recognising that the profitability of factory farming depends on externalising its true costs onto the broader community.
- How the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post 2013 can help European agriculture move away from industrial livestock production to sustainable, humane and autonomous forms of animal husbandry that will curb environmental pollution and human diseases, increase biodiversity and sustain rural livelihoods.
- The need for better enforcement of the EU Directive on the welfare of pigs and for this Directive to be strengthened.
- The need for the introduction of mandatory method of production labelling.
- The need for restrictions on the overuse of antibiotics.
- The need for public bodies to source nationally produced, high welfare pork.
Attending will be MEPs including those on the agriculture and environment committees, commissioners, political advisors, industry, press and NGOs.
Details :
- Introduction - Tracy Worcester, director and producer
- Screening of Pig Business - 15:00 - 16:00
- Presentations and debates - 16:00 - 18:00
* Economic and social costs - MEP José Bové / René Louail - Farmer (Europe Ecologie) / Gerard Choplin (Food Sov CAP Network)
* Environmental costs - MEP Dan Jorgensen / Mute Schimpf - FOE Europe / Antje Koelling - IFOAM EU Group
* Human and animal health - MEP Janusz Wojciechowski / Peter Stevenson - Compassion in World Farming / Coilin Nunan - Soil Association
Contact Us :
info@pigbusiness.co.uk.
www.pigbusiness.co.uk
Or Register HERE.