(Why the Elephant is becoming obese whilst dying for sugar)
by Mama D – Community Centred Knowledge
We are gathered here today…activists by definition because we have been called to witness the desecration of the countryside. Those could have been the words of the Rev Billy Talen who accompanies us on this protest march, in spirit and in song.
‘Reclaim our food system’, British Sugar factory April 29th 2015
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Re-posted from Land Workers’ Alliance website
Join the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) as we celebrate Via Campesina’s International day of Peasant Struggle: Meet Wednesday April 29th, outside the Bury St Edmunds Railway Station, 1pm.
Last year the LWA took our message to DEFRA, this year we are targeting British Sugar PLC to expose the inequality and problems inherent in our industrial food system. Government support of big agri-businesses, like British Sugar PLC, threatens the health of our communities and the quality of our environment. And we’re subsidising exactly the wrong sort of agriculture.
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