European Union: Healthy Food Strategy Hijacked by Big Alcohol

Posted September 21 2021 Alcohol Harm, Alcohol Industry Lobbyism, Alcohol Policy, Big Alcohol, Big Wine, BigAlcoholExposed, European Parliament, European Union, Evidence, Food Security, Health Policy, News, Public Health

Recently the European Parliament’s Environment and Health Committee blatantly disregarded scientific evidence on the harm caused by alcohol products, when the committee voted in favor of wine to be included in the ‘Farm to Fork’ healthy food strategy.
In addition to alcohol’s proven health and social harms, Big Wine has also been exposed for grave human rights violations at the farm level, which is against the principal of sustainability in the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy.

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