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The Republic’s historic failure to curb agricultural pollution drives concern among campaigners.
Nearly two thirds of country’s pig and poultry farms leach polluting manure into lough that supplies half the region's drinking water, according to latest research.
Incoming government is spotlighting highly polluting intensive farming practices, which damage water, land and air.
Campaigners say corporate-friendly science has “corrosive effects on public health debates”.
Campaigners say the CAP system favours large landowners and is “fuelling autocratic regimes”.
Industry giants have been accused of ‘enriching shareholders’ while ‘farmers and consumers pay the price’.
The European Parliament has “a legal and moral obligation to reject these dangerous proposals”, according to Dutch Left MEP Anja Hazekamp.
The programme is “yet another bung to industrial production”, experts say.
Corporate pledges to fight deforestation by turning degraded pasture into cropland seen boosting demand for harmful chemical inputs.
Trade groups lobbied ministers to promote a source of energy linked to massive environmental harms at the U.N. climate conference.
