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🚨 BREAKING: our new report exposes how financial institutions have poured OVER HALF A TRILLION $ into the world’s largest meat and dairy corporations since the Paris agreement in 2015, despite these companies driving deforestation and climate breakdown. 🐄 The global livestock sector causes an estimated $8.5 TRILLION annually in externalised health and climate costs. 🌎 5 big livestock companies – JBS, Marfrig, Cargill, Tyson Foods and Minerva – combined emit more greenhouse gas emissions per year than the total emissions of the UK and Ireland. 💰Yet they receive $ billions from financiers each year We are calling on financial institutions to stop all new financing to industrial livestock corporations, and for policymakers to regulate the finance industry to stop it financing polluting companies. Find out more. Read our new report: https://buff.ly/3Tnq4pv

New research shows that producing 1kg of farmed salmon can require 4-5kg of wild fish. 🐟 This assessment challenges the salmon farming industry’s claim that is the sustainable solution required to feed the world’s growing population. In fact, as is demonstrated in this month’s edition of Science Advances, it relies on extracting millions of tonnes of wild fish from the ocean and "does not, on net, produce calories or protein." The wild fish used to feed farmed salmon and other species such as seabass is often caught in the Global South in places like South-East Asia and West Africa, harming communities that rely on them for their diets and livelihoods. Read more below 👇 Research by Dr. Jennifer Jacquet, Matthew Hayek, Spencer Roberts and Patricia Majluf #aquaculture #farmedsalmon #foodjustice https://lnkd.in/eNJW4Jn3

🚨 The fact that Barclays can remain a major financial backer of JBS, the world's largest beef company, and not contravene its new deforestation policy sets off major alarm bells. Barclays justifies this by saying they only finance JBS’ US and European subsidiaries – but profits from these subsidiaries flow to the parent company and still contribute enormously to the company’s environmental impacts via their outsized livestock emissions and land use impacts. Feedback's Senior Policy and Campaigns Manager, Martin Bowman in Global Witness' new article. Read now: https://buff.ly/3YqXLu3 #JBS #Barclays #Deforestation #Meat #Beef #BigLivestock #Financing #Banks

🌎🍽️ Today on #WorldFoodDay, Plants First Healthcare is calling for hospitals to take action for human and planetary health by adopting a ‘plant-based by default’ approach. The idea behind the initiative is simple: offer and incentivise plant-based meals as the primary menu option without restricting choice. An open letter to support the initiative, addressed to every NHS Trust and healthcare leader, has already gained over 1200 signatures from a range of healthcare professionals. It has been signed by the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, the British Dietetic Association (BDA) Sustainable Diets Group, the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, and Nuffield Health among many others. The initiative launches alongside the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) Food Systems Policy Report, which calls for the normalisation of plant-based meals within all healthcare settings. Sign up for the launch day webinar to learn how you can take action 👉 https://buff.ly/3A0NKdE Visit https://buff.ly/3A0NKua and send the letter to your hospital’s CEO, sustainability lead, or lead dietitian! #PlantsFirstHealthcare #WorldFoodDay #HospitalFood

🚨 Only 1 week left to apply! We're hiring two Community Education Officers to work with local communities in Knowsley! You'll work with individuals, groups and communities to explore the food and farming heritage of Knowsley, and create exciting events, workshops and educational resources. Deadline: 21st October at 12pm 👉 https://buff.ly/3U9ft2u

🎉Wonderful to see our own Carina Millstone as one of Gardens Illustrated's 2024 Horticultural Heroes! Our executive director Carina is recognised alongside Rowena Ganguli for their founding of The Orchard Project, which was inspired by a shared vision of filling the UK’s capital with fruit trees. The aim of the project remains simple: to bring neighbours together to nurture their local environments into productive, resilient and beautiful spaces. “The Orchard Project was born from a vision of abundance of fruit, of wildlife, of community relations,” says Carina. “Starting in my home city of London, it’s been thrilling to watch the project grow over the years and to see this vision become reality in communities across the UK, especially in areas lacking in access to green space and nature.” Carina and Rowena have stepped back from running the project but, of course, Carina continues to be a committed environmental activist in her community and in her day job here at Feedback working for food that is good for planet and people. #GIhortiheroes24 #TheOrchardProject #GardensIllustrated #HorticulturalHeroes #Climate #Environment #Planet

Today is Global Fertiliser Day when the fertiliser industry takes the opportunity to celebrate how essential nitrogen-based fertilisers are. But we believe it’s an important moment to counter that dangerous narrative and call fossil fertilisers what they really are: a threat to human and environmental health. Particularly because half of all fertilisers globally are made from fossil fuels. Despite what the fertiliser lobby (👋Fertilizer News ) is saying today, we know the truth: fertilisers are not saviours but a threat to food sovereignty and an issue of global justice. This is such a huge, urgent issue because a food system reliant on fossil fertilisers – and a few powerful fertiliser companies – is vulnerable to geopolitical shocks and corporate lobbying and profiteering. Chemical fertilisers derived from fossil fuels are an underrecognised driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and toxic pollution. Yet the fertiliser industry is portraying itself as part of the solution to these planetary crises. Fossil fertilisers are also foundational to the corporate industrialised food system: Big agriculture is interconnected with Big Fertiliser. We must accelerate a managed decline of fossil fertilisers and get toxic chemicals off our crops and out of our communities. Agriculture without chemical inputs can: 🌡️ Reduce climate risks 🧑🌾 Improve soil & human health 🌱Increase biodiversity 💪Build food sovereignty That’s why, on Global Fertiliser Day, we’re calling on policymakers to reconsider the current industrialised food system that is deeply and dangerously intertwined with the fossil economy.

🍎We need your help!🍎Can you chip in to support a new Queen of Greens mobile greengrocer bus? The Queen of Greens brings fresh, affordable produce directly to neighbourhoods in the Liverpool City Region with limited access to healthy food. This ensures that everyone, regardless of their circumstances, has access to fruit and vegetables. Every £ donated will be match funded - so your donation is maximised! Unfortunately, our trusty bus has reached the end of the road. After nearly two years of service, it's time to replace it with a new vehicle that can keep up with the growing demand and continue delivering fresh produce to those who need it most. We need your help to make this happen. The Queen of Greens is a collaborative project between Alchemic Kitchen CIC, Feeding Liverpool, Feedback Global and Alexandra Rose. #food #foodsecurity #foodaccess #health #fruit #veg #righttofood

Ever wondered what happens to the soft plastic that you return to the supermarket for recycling…? A new investigation from Everyday Plastic and EIA UK reveals the hard truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarket: 🕵️ Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency tracked 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging waste through take-back schemes at Sainsbury’s and Tesco stores across England over 12 months. 🔥 Of the tracked soft plastic packaging waste collected for recycling, 70% of the soft plastic that reached a known destination was burnt, not recycled. The rest ended up at recycling facilities that downcycle soft plastic waste into lower value products – the majority of which were in Türkiye. ⚠️ Environmental law NGO ClientEarth warns that the results of the investigation show that supermarket soft plastic take-back schemes are misleading customers. 🗣️ They're now calling for Sainsbury's and Tesco to publicly support a 40% cut in global plastic production by 2040. Add your voice and sign the petition today.

🐟❌ Is there such a thing as sustainably farmed salmon? The global expansion of farmed salmon is driving the depletion of fish populations and worsening food insecurity in regions such as West Africa. The Sustainable Restaurant Association’s latest article explores sustainability issues surrounding farmed salmon. Read now 👉 https://buff.ly/3XXgk7x #Salmon #FarmedSalmon #Aquaculture #FishFarming #WestAfrica