#LivestockDebate Archives - Agricultural and Rural Convention

CAP, the Commission and Livestock Supports – Money Matters

March 17, 2023 ARC

There is a perception that, when it comes to the farming end of the agri-food system, CAP is primarily about supporting land owners and family farms. Is this the case? And even if so, does the Commission sometimes use the basic underpinnings of CAP to gloss over what are in fact significant, embedded supports for the most intensive end of the farming systems, including livestock? What does this mean for other producers? We attended a webinar on livestock recently, and these questions came to the fore. […]

Wallonia’s Observation Letter: A plan that fails to address climate and biodiversity crises

June 15, 2022 ARC

Here you’ll find the Observation Letter to Wallonia’s CAP Strategic Plan which ARC2020 has obtained. In no less than 210 points, the Commission exposes a lack of strategy towards healthy, sustainable and economically viable food systems for farmers, as well as incompatibilities and serious shortcomings in the measures proposed to deal with the climate and environmental crises. The Walloon government must review its copy by September 30th and obtain validation from the Commission so that the plan can enter into force on January 1st 2023. […]

CAP Strategic Plans and Food Security: Fallow Lands, Feeds, and Transitioning the Livestock Industry

May 30, 2022 Mathieu Willard

The invasion of Ukraine by Russia has sparked a debate on food security in Europe. Here, we set things straight on the derogation to allow production on fallow land, analyse the state of grain production and use as feed in Europe and reflect on what it entails for the future of the livestock sector. […]

Livestock Debate – it’s a wrap (for now!) #LivestockDebate

March 9, 2016 Oliver Moore

In this series, our authors and readers have approached the livestock debate from many perspectives – climate, animal ethics, economic and more. So what have we learned? […]

Climate, Livestock, Carbon & the Lobby #LivestockDebate

February 15, 2016 Shefali Sharma

Shefali Sharma from IATP exposes how big meat corporations work to keep the game rigged towards business-as-usual – an as-usual that is running us into a climate change catastrophe #LivestockDebate final contribution before round up. […]

Environmental Destruction Directly Impacts Farm Profits | #Livestock Debate

February 7, 2016 Sheldon Frith

Sheldon Frith comes back on criticisms of holistic management in his second and final contribution to the #LivestockDebate […]

Let us Evolve and Extend our Sympathies to all Living Creatures. #LivestockDebate

February 3, 2016 Frank Armstrong

How far do – and should – our sympathies extend? Frank Armstrong gives us his second contribution on the ethics of livestock. […]

Do we Have the Tools to Choose Sustainable Meat? #LivestockDebate

February 2, 2016 ARC

Olivier De Schutter, Hans Herren and Emile Frison (on behalf of IPES-food) critically consider holistic management within the rubric of sustainable diets in our livestock debate. […]

Pssst! The Answer is in the Soil! #LivestockDebate

February 1, 2016 ARC

Is a kilo of meat really as bad as flying to New York? Or does the soil store enough carbon to cope? Guest post by Miles King. […]

Behind Closed Doors – the Vulnerability of Big Meat. #LivestockDebate

January 30, 2016 Ben Lilliston

IATP’s Ben Lilliston exposes the vulnerability of big meat – from mass gassings and manure lagoons to climate change and human rights. Part of our #LivestockDebate Series. […]

Livestock Will Save Us – A Regenerative Perspective. #LivestockDebate

January 25, 2016 Sheldon Frith

Livestock management is quietly undergoing a massive transformation. It began in the 1970s when Allan Savory developed Holistic Management, and from there many farmers have continued to refine the art of grazing. […]

Let us Embrace Cooperation not Conflict. #LivestockDebate

January 18, 2016 Frank Armstrong

In the second in our livestock debate contributions, Frank Armstrong considers the Anthropocene, the inherent violence in meat and the knock on effects of this. […]

Calculating livestock’s environmental footprint is complex – but other questions are simple. #LivestockDebate.

January 17, 2016 Oliver de Schutter

Olivier De Schutter, Hans Herren and Emile Frison (on behalf of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) give ARC2020 the first contribution to the livestock debate – encompassing climate, sustainable diets and morals – we are running. […]

#LivestockDebate – Climate Destroyer or Saviour via Soil?

January 10, 2016 ARC

We’re hosting a written debate on livestock and how it contributes – or otherwise – to a sustainable diet in the fullest sense. Join us! […]