The Food Systems Newsroom investigates the major players, crucial dynamics and trends shaping our farms, lives and environment. It works to cut across silos like animal welfare; the environmental lobby; public health; migrant rights and unpack real-world harms in ways that are relatable to the public and move beyond shaming consumers to illuminate systems.
NEWSROOM FOOD SYSTEMS
25.04.2023
Toxic Rain
Hazardous and potential cancer-causing pesticides are being sprayed over farms supplying Nestlé and Coca-Cola
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18.04.2023
Europe’s funding of EU-banned pesticides
Farmers in the Global South bear the brunt of European public investments on dangerous pesticides outlawed by the EU
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14.04.2023
Exposed: the hedge funds cashing in on the food price spike
Analysis shows hedge funds were some of the biggest winners from the global food price spike that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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12.10.2022
Pension Funds Fuel Hunger Crisis
Uncovering the billions of euros gambled on commodities by reckless funds
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26.09.2022
Big Meat
How Europe’s biggest meat companies avoid tax while raking in subsidies
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06.05.2022
The Hunger Profiteers
Financial speculators make a killing on food prices in regulatory failure
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19.10.2021
Big Meat Sabotages Reform
How the meat industrial complex exerts undue influence on EU policy
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13.10.2021
Dark Side of Spain Slaughterhouses
Fear, racism and exploitation in publicly subsidised pork companies
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13.10.2021
Spanish pork: out of control
Eco-disaster in EU’s largest salt lagoon has culprit hiding in plain sight
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17.07.2020
Invisible Workers
Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU’s farms at height of pandemic
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