As part of the Disrupt Action Days from October 8-13, we at “Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie” took part in the alliance demonstration “Work together! Stop EU-Mercosur! For a solidarity-based food transition now!” in Bremen on October 11 and took our demands for a fair food system to the streets.
From the Climate Collective’s call to demonstrate: “While the next global climate negotiations are being prepared in Brazil, the EU is pushing ahead with the EU-Mercosur agreement with the South American states. This agreement is intended to expand trade flows – but the consequences of these trade relations are already massive: deforestation, monocultures, factory farming, human rights violations. The winners of this expansion would be international agricultural corporations – and German chemical giants such as Bayer and BASF, which sell their pesticides and genetically modified products at the expense of people and the environment in South America. The losers would be farms, the climate, the environment, our food security – ultimately all of us, both globally and here at home.”
Our agriculture is dominated by a few large agricultural corporations, and that is no coincidence. It is a system based on exploitation, growth, and competition. But we know that in order to have good food for everyone and with everyone, we need a different kind of agriculture, one based on solidarity and justice.
This issue affects us all: everywhere, on your doorstep and on your plate! For fair agriculture instead of agribusiness!
Credits:
Marco Molitor /coffee in the desert
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