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We did it! Supermarkets in the EU won’t be allowed to sell products that add to deforestation. Soon, you’ll no longer find chocolate, coffee, or meat that’s made by killing our trees.

The vote on a new law to protect our forests got the support of European politicians.

This win wouldn’t have been possible without this community. As part of the #Together4forests movement, we joined a petition of 1.2 million people, sent more than 200,000 messages and made phone calls to key MEPs and ministers.

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We call for the strongest possible European law to ban all products linked to deforestation and the destruction of nature.

Why is this important?

In South America, forests like the Amazon are cut and burned to make way for vast soybean fields. Iconic species like the jaguar are losing their homes. Thousands of people living in forests are forced to flee. [1]

All to produce soy and meat.

Europe is complicit in this disaster. Every year our governments import millions of tons of soybeans into Europe to feed cows, chickens, and pigs that are slaughtered for meat. [2]

In just a few days, the European Union will start negotiations on a new law that could ban the sale of all products made in deforested areas. [3]

But meanwhile the soy and meat companies are doing everything they can to weaken this law, so they can protect their profits. [4]

With 170 partner organisations standing by our side, we can make a big impact. A massive petition signed by hundreds of thousands of Europeans can’t be ignored and will show the EU where the public stands.

So add your voice and make sure the EU listens to people, and not companies.

References:

https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation-and-forest-degradation
https://wwfeu.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/new_stepping_up___the_continuing_impact_of_eu_consumption_on_nature_worldwide_fullreport.pdf
In November 2021, The European Commission released a draft law to cut deforestation out of the EU’s supply chains. The draft law would for the first time require companies selling certain products on the EU market to trace their origin and show that they are not linked to forest destruction or forest degradation. Negotiations in the European Parliament and between national ministers will start soon. EU agriculture and environment ministers will meet on 22 February and 17 March, while the members of European Parliament have already started to define their position.
https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/nature-food/45739/forest-wrecking-industries-try-to-sabotage-new-eu-forest-law/

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Recent comments

Gun

This is what I can do as an old grandmother to help the innocent children of today, the animals, the indigenas and you and me. Please help us all by voting to secure the water, clean air and forests

Nicolas

I´ve been to soy farms in southern argentina. They end up as barren wastelands within the decade producing massive dust-storms. The soil just doesn´t take it.

Katarzyna

One nature. Protection of biodivercìty.

Trailović

I love forest and nature

françoise

for everything you explain well

Dorit

I want to live a healthy happy full quality life, without trees especially in the Amazon life on Earth is impossible. So it's of crucial importance that trees are preserved and regarded as sacred.

Anita

We NEED trees.!!!

pieter

We have been working on the fronlines of the Amazon for the past 30 years, and have witnessed the ongoing disaster

Edwin

Policy is the only way to save the planet

David

Because of the biodiversiteit.

Martin

Great work. Not only is this threatening biodiversity locally, but we also need to think more about how we use land for feedstock rather than using some of that land to grow plants that can be directly used for feeding people rather than say cows.

Clementine

Woods protect the world against climate change, and Europe should protect the woods instead of handing them out to so called 'ínvestors' who burn them to make way for Windparkdeserts.

Julie

It’s critical that Conversion (incl. the the Cerrado) is treated with the same gravity as deforestation when it comes to promoting sustainability in soy supply chains

Michael

I don‘t want to be part of a generation which just let these things happen.

Janna

Because I lived in a Mennonite Colony in South Brazil (Paraná), until I was twelve years old.

John

Biodiversity and healthy forests are essential for the health and sustanability of the planet. We must stop depleting these precious resources.

Kristine

Agriculture is a thread to biodiversity. Stop destroying Nature for cheap products.

Marja

The forests are important!!!

Magdalena

Biodiversity is more important than meat. Especially when such a huge amount if meat is thrown away.

Dana

Stop selling away biodiversity, we are selling our future!

Sofie

It’s too difficult for consumers to make the right choice in the grocery store, it would be a full time job to keep track of everything. We need legislation to stop these kind of destructive products from even being a choice.

Thomas

fuck capitalism and consumerism

Topi

Forests are more valuable than red meat.

Goran

Our lives begin to end the day we shut up about things that matter. For 10,000 years, like a manifesto, the nature around us invites us to wake up from the despair of everyday life, raise our voice and change our lives for the better. Ever since Man, a small herder and farmer, began to apply totalitarian agriculture, we have witnessed the disappearance of forests, rivers, savannas, countless plant and animal species before our eyes, so that our life today is reduced to dreams of the beauties of nature that no longer exist. But even those dreams will soon disappear, and where there are no dreams of a better tomorrow, there can be no awakening.

Tanja

I have grandchildren!!

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