NGOs disown EU agriculture Commissioner’s greenwashed flagship pig meat report

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Published Mar 17, 2023

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Green groups are up in arms over a recent Commission-drafted report on the sustainability of the pigmeat sector, slamming it as a greenwashing exercise and disowning the conclusions which purportedly reflect the views of the expert group of which they were part.

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The report, which is due to be presented by EU agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers on Monday (20 March), is the outcome of a series of meetings of the European pigmeat reflection group. The group was first announced by Wojciechowski, who has been vocal on the issue of pigmeat sustainability, back in February 2022. Its aim was to review the sustainability of the pigmeat sector, from socio-economic dynamics to environmental and climate challenges, especially in light of the economic fallout caused by a series of crises, including the COVID pandemic and the further spread of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Europe. The report lists a number of areas for improvement, such as the need to promote cooperation between pig producers and the rest of the supply chain, better training and knowledge-sharing, as well as more encouragement for member states to use all the tools at their disposal in the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to ...

Source: Euractiv