March against the agro-industrial model, GMOs and pesticides
El Ciudadano, May 18, 2023

Social, environmental and human rights organizations mobilize this Friday from the Obelisk to the Ministry of Health. They seek to alert that in Argentina "500 million liters of pesticides are sprayed per year, and it is the country that applies the most glyphosate per person in the world"

Social, environmental and human rights organizations will march this Friday from the Obelisk to the Ministry of Health against the agro-industrial model, transgenics and the use of pesticides, considering that they "attack socio-environmental health and food sovereignty", they reported this Thursday organizers.

This is a new edition of the so-called "World March against Bayer-Monsanto and agribusiness", which had its first edition in 2013 and was held in 300 cities in 40 countries around the world.

The new mobilization, which will start this Friday, at 5:00 p.m., from the Obelisk, seeks to alert that in Argentina "500 million liters of pesticides are sprayed per year" and that "it has the record of being the country with the most glyphosate per applied person in the world", indicated the organizers.

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EU Approves Dutch Government’s Plan to Shutter Farms, ‘Forced Sales’ Not Ruled Out
by Vijeta Uniyal, May 6, 2023

Earlier this year, the EU gave green light for several types of insects to be allowed in food items consumed by humans.

A new plan approved by the European Union will allow the Dutch government to buy-out farms and bar the displaced farmers from ever returning to their way of life.

The buy-out scheme is part of the EU’s plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by destroying the European farming sector. "A key part of the Dutch strategy involves buying up and halting work at farms responsible for large-scale emissions of nitrogen," the Associated Press noted Tuesday.

The so-called "voluntary definitive closure" plan, approved by the European Commission (the EU’s executive arm), will ban farmers, who sell their livestock farms to the state, from returning to livestock farming in the Netherlands or anywhere else in the European bloc.

"Under the schemes, the beneficiaries guarantee that the closure of their production capacity is definitive and irreversible, and that they will not start the same breeding activity elsewhere in the Netherlands or within the EU," the EU declared in a statement issued Tuesday.

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