The World Bank funds the factory farm industry in the name of "sustainable
development", poisoning our planet and leaving corporations in charge of
our food. That has to stop.

Tell the World Bank to stop funding highly-polluting factory farms.

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John,

International development banks are funding disastrous factory farming --
poisoning our planet and leaving corporations in charge of our food.

Nitrogen pollution from U.S. mega-farms has already created gigantic 'dead
zones' in the Gulf of Mexico, and it's happening in Europe too. Now
development banks are investing hundreds of millions into the industry to
build more factory farms around the world.

But a new global campaign to end funding of industrial animal agriculture
is ramping up, and helped persuade the Inter-American Development Bank to
drop a $200 million beef industry loan. Now it's time to target the World
Bank -- the biggest and most influential development bank of them all. 

[ [link removed] ]Tell the World Bank: stop funding industrial animal agriculture

The industrial food system is the leading cause of biodiversity loss via
deforestation and synthetic pesticides and fertilizers for animal feed
crops. That's not "development" -- it's a DISASTER.

While many of us try to reduce our meat consumption for climate reasons
and animal welfare, our governments indirectly fund the global expansion
of monstrous factory farms. According to research by World Animal
Protection, leading development banks, including the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, IDB Invest, and
the International Finance Corporation (IFC, World Bank Group), invested
$4.6B in the sector between 2010 and 2021.

But we're not starting from zero: World Bank shareholders voted in October
2023 to update the Bank's mission statement to explicitly include a
commitment to addressing climate change, stating it will work “to create a
world free of poverty on a liveable planet.” 

Now it's time to push the Bank further -- to make the World Bank's actions
match its words.

[ [link removed] ]Tell the World Bank: stop funding industrial animal agriculture

Activists from around the world, including Mexican Indigenous-Ngiwa
defender Xananine Ramirez protested the World Bank's Spring Meeting
earlier this month in Washington DC. Media coverage of the impact of
factory farming and the links to public development banks is increasing.
Let's all join in and push the World Bank to change before it's too late!



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Thanks for all that you do,
Eoin and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Climate Misalignment: Industrial Livestock and the Paris Agreement
Stop Financing Factory Farming 02 June 2023
[ [link removed] ]America has made almost no progress shrinking the Gulf of Mexico’s
‘dead zone’ despite 30 years of trying, EPA says
Fortune 22 January 2024
[ [link removed] ]UN numbers say meat is bad for the climate. The reality is worse.
Vox 27 March 2023

 

 

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