Maria Gernert
@maria-ge.bsky.social
#TPOrganics Senior Officer: shaping #research & #innovation for sustainable #FoodSystems based on #organic and #agroecology 🌿🍽️🌍
✊🏽Justice artivist & advocate for system change
🎓MSc Sustainability in food & service industries
🍉🔹🌱🔹💃🏽
📍💙 of Europe
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✊🏽Justice artivist & advocate for system change
🎓MSc Sustainability in food & service industries
🍉🔹🌱🔹💃🏽
📍💙 of Europe
💭Views=mine
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Maria Gernert
@maria-ge.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Hi there 🤗
If you also recently moved here, it hopefully means you care. It hurts a bit to leave connections behind and start from scratch, but many may follow us & we will make new ones.
So yes, "making the move" is a good start, but to organise, to build and grow a movement, we need to do more 👇🏽🧵
If you also recently moved here, it hopefully means you care. It hurts a bit to leave connections behind and start from scratch, but many may follow us & we will make new ones.
So yes, "making the move" is a good start, but to organise, to build and grow a movement, we need to do more 👇🏽🧵
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More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
More fox-guarding-henhouse climate news: > 300 big agriculture lobbyists have taken part in Cop30, investigation finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🌿Organic Innovation Days 2025: What a week in #Brussels! 🤩
On 3-5 November, nearly 200 participants from all #Europe gathered for the #OID2025, confirming that organic R&I are key drivers of sustainable transition of #EU food systems.
Event review 👉 tporganics.eu/organic-inno...
On 3-5 November, nearly 200 participants from all #Europe gathered for the #OID2025, confirming that organic R&I are key drivers of sustainable transition of #EU food systems.
Event review 👉 tporganics.eu/organic-inno...
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🌿Organic Innovation Days 2025: What a week in #Brussels! 🤩
On 3-5 November, nearly 200 participants from all #Europe gathered for the #OID2025, confirming that organic R&I are key drivers of sustainable transition of #EU food systems.
Event review 👉 tporganics.eu/organic-inno...
On 3-5 November, nearly 200 participants from all #Europe gathered for the #OID2025, confirming that organic R&I are key drivers of sustainable transition of #EU food systems.
Event review 👉 tporganics.eu/organic-inno...
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✨ #TPOrganics has just unveiled its new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)!
This key document outlines the research and innovation priorities that will drive the future of organic and agroecology in Europe. 🌱
🔗 tporganics.eu/wp-content/u...
This key document outlines the research and innovation priorities that will drive the future of organic and agroecology in Europe. 🌱
🔗 tporganics.eu/wp-content/u...
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
✨ #TPOrganics has just unveiled its new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)!
This key document outlines the research and innovation priorities that will drive the future of organic and agroecology in Europe. 🌱
🔗 tporganics.eu/wp-content/u...
This key document outlines the research and innovation priorities that will drive the future of organic and agroecology in Europe. 🌱
🔗 tporganics.eu/wp-content/u...
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⏳ Last day to register for the #OrganicInnovationDays 2025!
Find out why you can’t miss this key event on organic research!🌱
📌 Registrations close tomorrow 17 October — secure your spot now!
👉https://lnkd.in/eWPqe7RE
Find out why you can’t miss this key event on organic research!🌱
📌 Registrations close tomorrow 17 October — secure your spot now!
👉https://lnkd.in/eWPqe7RE
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
⏳ Last day to register for the #OrganicInnovationDays 2025!
Find out why you can’t miss this key event on organic research!🌱
📌 Registrations close tomorrow 17 October — secure your spot now!
👉https://lnkd.in/eWPqe7RE
Find out why you can’t miss this key event on organic research!🌱
📌 Registrations close tomorrow 17 October — secure your spot now!
👉https://lnkd.in/eWPqe7RE
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📣 Registrations for the Organic Innovation Days close this Friday!
Don't miss your chance to be part of the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation. 🌱
👇 Check out the official agenda and secure your spot today!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Don't miss your chance to be part of the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation. 🌱
👇 Check out the official agenda and secure your spot today!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
October 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣 Registrations for the Organic Innovation Days close this Friday!
Don't miss your chance to be part of the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation. 🌱
👇 Check out the official agenda and secure your spot today!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
Don't miss your chance to be part of the only EU event on organic and agroecological research and innovation. 🌱
👇 Check out the official agenda and secure your spot today!
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Today is #WorldFoodDay ! It happens that EU bans toxic pesticides... but then still exports them to all corners of the world. And that is ⤴️ ever more: 120.000 tons in 2024, so we decided to send them back to the Commission. They have been waiting 5 years to act & stop this unethical double standard!
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Today is #WorldFoodDay ! It happens that EU bans toxic pesticides... but then still exports them to all corners of the world. And that is ⤴️ ever more: 120.000 tons in 2024, so we decided to send them back to the Commission. They have been waiting 5 years to act & stop this unethical double standard!
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💥 World Food Day - UN rapporteur Michael Fakhri said in the European Parliament:
👉 "Hunger is always a political problem. We produce enough food to feed 1,5 times the current global population. Hunger is always a political and institutional failure."
See: shorturl.at/vKsfY
👉 "Hunger is always a political problem. We produce enough food to feed 1,5 times the current global population. Hunger is always a political and institutional failure."
See: shorturl.at/vKsfY
Subcommittee on Human Rights Ordinary meeting - Multimedia Centre
The multimedia platform of the European Parliament is the official public available repository of the media production of the Secretariat of the European Parliament, managed by the Directorate-General...
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu
October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
💥 World Food Day - UN rapporteur Michael Fakhri said in the European Parliament:
👉 "Hunger is always a political problem. We produce enough food to feed 1,5 times the current global population. Hunger is always a political and institutional failure."
See: shorturl.at/vKsfY
👉 "Hunger is always a political problem. We produce enough food to feed 1,5 times the current global population. Hunger is always a political and institutional failure."
See: shorturl.at/vKsfY
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🌱The good news? Solutions already exist.
#Agroecology and community-based food systems restore soils, recycle fertility, protect health & ensure food access – without fueling the climate crisis.
📖 Read more: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FossilFreeFood #GlobalFertilizerDay (3/3)
#Agroecology and community-based food systems restore soils, recycle fertility, protect health & ensure food access – without fueling the climate crisis.
📖 Read more: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FossilFreeFood #GlobalFertilizerDay (3/3)
October 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
🌱The good news? Solutions already exist.
#Agroecology and community-based food systems restore soils, recycle fertility, protect health & ensure food access – without fueling the climate crisis.
📖 Read more: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FossilFreeFood #GlobalFertilizerDay (3/3)
#Agroecology and community-based food systems restore soils, recycle fertility, protect health & ensure food access – without fueling the climate crisis.
📖 Read more: ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
#FossilFreeFood #GlobalFertilizerDay (3/3)
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🔴✊ +110,000 in Brussels drew the RED LINE for Gaza.
A genocide is taking place in Gaza fuelled by EU and corporate complicity.
No climate justice without Palestinian liberation.
#RedLineForGaza #EndEUComplicity #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
A genocide is taking place in Gaza fuelled by EU and corporate complicity.
No climate justice without Palestinian liberation.
#RedLineForGaza #EndEUComplicity #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
September 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🔴✊ +110,000 in Brussels drew the RED LINE for Gaza.
A genocide is taking place in Gaza fuelled by EU and corporate complicity.
No climate justice without Palestinian liberation.
#RedLineForGaza #EndEUComplicity #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
A genocide is taking place in Gaza fuelled by EU and corporate complicity.
No climate justice without Palestinian liberation.
#RedLineForGaza #EndEUComplicity #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide
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🇵🇸Yesterday, we were tens of thousands drawing a red line for Gaza.
To all politicians: do everything in your power to stop the genocide.
#FreePalestine 🍉
To all politicians: do everything in your power to stop the genocide.
#FreePalestine 🍉
September 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🇵🇸Yesterday, we were tens of thousands drawing a red line for Gaza.
To all politicians: do everything in your power to stop the genocide.
#FreePalestine 🍉
To all politicians: do everything in your power to stop the genocide.
#FreePalestine 🍉
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How do #biodistricts support small-scale farmers around the world & help develop sustainable food systems? Find out in our carousel 👇 & stay tuned for updates as next week we'll launch the 2nd video from our #OrganicDelivers campaign, focusing exactly on this topic!
#EUorganic
#EUorganic
September 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
How do #biodistricts support small-scale farmers around the world & help develop sustainable food systems? Find out in our carousel 👇 & stay tuned for updates as next week we'll launch the 2nd video from our #OrganicDelivers campaign, focusing exactly on this topic!
#EUorganic
#EUorganic
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There's a serious risk that the EU's forthcoming #28thRegime will result in a downwards spiral in workers’ rights and corporate tax payments
It's high time for public debate and political pressure on EU decision-makers!
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
#deregulation #RulesToProtect
It's high time for public debate and political pressure on EU decision-makers!
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
#deregulation #RulesToProtect
September 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
There's a serious risk that the EU's forthcoming #28thRegime will result in a downwards spiral in workers’ rights and corporate tax payments
It's high time for public debate and political pressure on EU decision-makers!
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
#deregulation #RulesToProtect
It's high time for public debate and political pressure on EU decision-makers!
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/2025/09/s...
#deregulation #RulesToProtect
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🧵What does #FoodJustice look like—from #Palestine to #Peru, #Ghana to #Myanmar?
Not from reports.
From the people living it.
These eight leaders came together to share stories of land, memory, resistance, and renewal.
Here’s what they want you to know 👇
🔗 bit.ly/rooted-in-ju...
#FoodSovereignty
Not from reports.
From the people living it.
These eight leaders came together to share stories of land, memory, resistance, and renewal.
Here’s what they want you to know 👇
🔗 bit.ly/rooted-in-ju...
#FoodSovereignty
September 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🧵What does #FoodJustice look like—from #Palestine to #Peru, #Ghana to #Myanmar?
Not from reports.
From the people living it.
These eight leaders came together to share stories of land, memory, resistance, and renewal.
Here’s what they want you to know 👇
🔗 bit.ly/rooted-in-ju...
#FoodSovereignty
Not from reports.
From the people living it.
These eight leaders came together to share stories of land, memory, resistance, and renewal.
Here’s what they want you to know 👇
🔗 bit.ly/rooted-in-ju...
#FoodSovereignty
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Extinction Rebellion Belgium denounces the continued presence and influence of #lobbyists from the #fossilfuel sector, the arms industry, and their financial backers within the heart of #European institutions 🇪🇺 💰
Stay tuned for the suite of PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES campaign.
✊✊✊
#peopleovelobbies
Stay tuned for the suite of PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES campaign.
✊✊✊
#peopleovelobbies
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Extinction Rebellion Belgium denounces the continued presence and influence of #lobbyists from the #fossilfuel sector, the arms industry, and their financial backers within the heart of #European institutions 🇪🇺 💰
Stay tuned for the suite of PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES campaign.
✊✊✊
#peopleovelobbies
Stay tuned for the suite of PEOPLE OVER LOBBIES campaign.
✊✊✊
#peopleovelobbies
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📅 On 4 September, join a broad, united citizens' mobilisation in Brussels' EU quarter to say loud and clear: NO to the EU-Mercosur deal.
🌱 For peasant agriculture
🔥 For climate
✊ For people's rights
For more info on how your organisation can support the action, contact @cncd.be
🌱 For peasant agriculture
🔥 For climate
✊ For people's rights
For more info on how your organisation can support the action, contact @cncd.be
July 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
📅 On 4 September, join a broad, united citizens' mobilisation in Brussels' EU quarter to say loud and clear: NO to the EU-Mercosur deal.
🌱 For peasant agriculture
🔥 For climate
✊ For people's rights
For more info on how your organisation can support the action, contact @cncd.be
🌱 For peasant agriculture
🔥 For climate
✊ For people's rights
For more info on how your organisation can support the action, contact @cncd.be
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🌿 More comprehensive vision on R&I needed for competitive, sustainable and resilient EU food systems 🌿
Read TP Organics press release on the proposed future EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (#FP10) 👉 tporganics.eu/press-releas...
#EUpolicy #HorizonEU #organic
Read TP Organics press release on the proposed future EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (#FP10) 👉 tporganics.eu/press-releas...
#EUpolicy #HorizonEU #organic
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌿 More comprehensive vision on R&I needed for competitive, sustainable and resilient EU food systems 🌿
Read TP Organics press release on the proposed future EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (#FP10) 👉 tporganics.eu/press-releas...
#EUpolicy #HorizonEU #organic
Read TP Organics press release on the proposed future EU Research & Innovation Framework Programme (#FP10) 👉 tporganics.eu/press-releas...
#EUpolicy #HorizonEU #organic
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The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?
That environmental destruction is actually conservation.
This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.
📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
That environmental destruction is actually conservation.
This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.
📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
The Enduring Fantasy of “Feeding the World” – Spectre Journal
Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.
spectrejournal.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The Orwellian myth at the heart of industrial agriculture?
That environmental destruction is actually conservation.
This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.
📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
That environmental destruction is actually conservation.
This must-read essay traces how productivism – the obsession with yield – fuels ecocide & colonialism, while failing to 'feed the world'.
📖 spectrejournal.com/the-enduring...
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The @ec.europa.eu's #CAP proposal weakens sustainability, leaving up to MS how to finance agri-environmental measures.🌿At least one third of the CAP budget should be ringfenced for the protection of ecosystems services including #OrganicFarming.
Our PR 👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/cap-pro...
Our PR 👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/cap-pro...
July 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The @ec.europa.eu's #CAP proposal weakens sustainability, leaving up to MS how to finance agri-environmental measures.🌿At least one third of the CAP budget should be ringfenced for the protection of ecosystems services including #OrganicFarming.
Our PR 👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/cap-pro...
Our PR 👉 www.organicseurope.bio/news/cap-pro...
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‘Trade must not come at the expense of peoples’ rights & international law’
At the EU Parliament, Rasha Abu Dayyeh (PENGON Friends of the Earth Palestine) urged action: suspend trade and cooperation with companies and institutions complicit of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
At the EU Parliament, Rasha Abu Dayyeh (PENGON Friends of the Earth Palestine) urged action: suspend trade and cooperation with companies and institutions complicit of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
July 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
‘Trade must not come at the expense of peoples’ rights & international law’
At the EU Parliament, Rasha Abu Dayyeh (PENGON Friends of the Earth Palestine) urged action: suspend trade and cooperation with companies and institutions complicit of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
At the EU Parliament, Rasha Abu Dayyeh (PENGON Friends of the Earth Palestine) urged action: suspend trade and cooperation with companies and institutions complicit of the on-going genocide in Gaza.
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🚨Who holds the power in our #foodsystems?
A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🚨Who holds the power in our #foodsystems?
A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A handful of corporations control seeds, supermarkets, farm equipment, soft drinks, & ultimately what ends up on our plates. It's bad for prices, choice, livelihoods, & democracy—write @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social et al.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Solidarity w Francesca Albanese who faces threats of US sanctions, right after the special rapporteur to the UN human rights council published a grim new report on companies profiting from genocide.
Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants.
#Gaza
shorturl.at/MsIk7
Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants.
#Gaza
shorturl.at/MsIk7
July 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Solidarity w Francesca Albanese who faces threats of US sanctions, right after the special rapporteur to the UN human rights council published a grim new report on companies profiting from genocide.
Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants.
#Gaza
shorturl.at/MsIk7
Big Tech names like Palantir feature, along with ag & construction giants.
#Gaza
shorturl.at/MsIk7
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Drawing through Gramsci, Fanon, the mondine, & the Black Panthers to ask what counterhegemony looks like in crisis, Raj Patel's latest offers food as care, care as anti-fascism. Read it. Share it. Teach it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Counter-hegemony and polycrisis I: how to eat and how to think
Using Gramscian and Fanonian theories, this paper examines counter-hegemony through two 20th-century movements: Italian mondine (rice weeders) and the Black Panther Party. These movements met crise...
www.tandfonline.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Drawing through Gramsci, Fanon, the mondine, & the Black Panthers to ask what counterhegemony looks like in crisis, Raj Patel's latest offers food as care, care as anti-fascism. Read it. Share it. Teach it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our new report reveals just how deeply fossil fuels are embedded in #FoodSystems.
🌟But there is good news - breaking the link between #food and #FossilFuels is already possible now.
Let’s break it down⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
🌟But there is good news - breaking the link between #food and #FossilFuels is already possible now.
Let’s break it down⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
June 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Our new report reveals just how deeply fossil fuels are embedded in #FoodSystems.
🌟But there is good news - breaking the link between #food and #FossilFuels is already possible now.
Let’s break it down⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
🌟But there is good news - breaking the link between #food and #FossilFuels is already possible now.
Let’s break it down⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
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👀 WATCH THIS SPACE…
Food systems are the #fossilfuel blind spot few are talking about. Until now.
🚨From fertilizers to plastics, ultra-processed foods to kitchens – the links to #BigOil run deep.
📢TOMORROW our new report exposes the ties – and how to break free. #FuelToFork
#ClimateAction #COP30
Food systems are the #fossilfuel blind spot few are talking about. Until now.
🚨From fertilizers to plastics, ultra-processed foods to kitchens – the links to #BigOil run deep.
📢TOMORROW our new report exposes the ties – and how to break free. #FuelToFork
#ClimateAction #COP30
June 24, 2025 at 8:45 AM
👀 WATCH THIS SPACE…
Food systems are the #fossilfuel blind spot few are talking about. Until now.
🚨From fertilizers to plastics, ultra-processed foods to kitchens – the links to #BigOil run deep.
📢TOMORROW our new report exposes the ties – and how to break free. #FuelToFork
#ClimateAction #COP30
Food systems are the #fossilfuel blind spot few are talking about. Until now.
🚨From fertilizers to plastics, ultra-processed foods to kitchens – the links to #BigOil run deep.
📢TOMORROW our new report exposes the ties – and how to break free. #FuelToFork
#ClimateAction #COP30
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European consumers & farmers are left behind while corporations profit from toxic trade.
This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers:
❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal
❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU
#StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade
This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers:
❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal
❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU
#StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade
June 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
European consumers & farmers are left behind while corporations profit from toxic trade.
This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers:
❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal
❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU
#StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade
This morning we were outside the European Parliament to demand decision makers:
❌ To reject the EU-Mercosur trade deal
❌ To ban the export of pesticides banned in the EU
#StopEUMercosur #EndToxicTrade