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Global coalition urges WHO to update decades-old drinking water guidelines as studies link nitrate pollution to cancer and birth risks
Over 80 leading global health, environment, and food advocacy organisations including Greenpeace International, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and the World Organization of Family Doctors have issued an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) urging a review of international drinking water standards for nitrate to protect public health from…
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Largest meat and dairy exporters could conceal over 1.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions if controversial accounting metrics adopted
The report also highlights a risk of governments using these paper savings in agriculture to justify slower decarbonisation in heavy-polluting fossil fuel sectors.
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Pig waste is polluting Mexico’s Maya rainforest. But local communities are fighting back
Across the globe, massive factory farms are polluting local drinking water to line the pockets of a wealthy few. But communities are drawing a line in the sand.
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Water testing reveals severe contamination in Mexico’s Maya rainforest as illegal pig farming expands
Severe, widespread fecal and chemical contamination is threatening the country’s largest source of renewable groundwater, driven in part by illegal industrial pig farms, a new report reveals.
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How our beloved foods are becoming an unaffordable luxury
With the right food policies, we can afford basic food, and can even keep enjoying our beloved foods without breaking the bank.
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‘Stop This Shit!’: Greenpeace activists paint 500m² slogan at factory farm threatening UNESCO protected wetlands
The protest targeted a project on the Croatian border with Hungary by poultry giant MHP, Europe’s largest chicken producer, which is expected to produce 1.8 million chickens a year.
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The Drava flows through my veins: we are fighting to save the Amazon of Europe from factory farms
The Chicken King wants to build another industrial megafarm next to Croatia's largest drinking water source. Residents are organising against forced industrial farms.
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Saving the ‘Amazon of Europe’ from Big Ag’s next megafarm
Europe’s biggest poultry player, MHP Group, led by billionaire ‘Chicken King’ Yuriy Kosiuk wants to turn this paradise region, right where the rivers Drava and Mura meet into an industrial zone to house 1.8 million chickens annually. Not here, not anywhere.
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We’re taking JBS, the world’s largest meat company, to court over its Nigeria expansion
JBS, a global meat empire controlled by two billionaire brothers, wants to stay in the shadows while they export their destructive business model to Nigeria. That’s why we’re taking them to court to reveal the truth.
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Greenpeace ask Dutch court to force disclosure on JBS US$2.5bn Nigerian expansion as litigation looms
Greenpeace Netherlands has petitioned a Dutch court seeking to compel meat giant JBS to disclose information in order to challenge its business policies in court.