Food & Farming

Caroline Lucas has worked hard to ensure that farmers and consumers can enjoy a better agricultural system. She has presented proposals on how to radically reform the Common Agricultural Policy, promoted a ban on GM food and crops and supported environmentally friendly and organic farming. As a member of the European Parliament’s Environment and Consumer Protection Committee, Caroline has worked for local food economies, fair prices for farmers and strong controls on supermarkets.

Image: Caroline launching a report about food, Reading International Solidarity Centre 2003

Press Releases

‘Globalised Food System Stifles, Threatens And Harms’, Says Green MEP - 25.6.2008

Euro Commission Shies Away From Crucial Decisions On GMOs - 7.5.2008

Green Euro-MP Urges Commission To Say No To GMO On Eve Of Crucial Vote - 6.5.2008

UK Green MEP Awards ‘Good Eggs’ At Ceremony In European Parliament - 16.4.2008

Green MEP Calls For Immediate Suspension Of ‘False Solution’ Biofuel Target Ahead Of RTFO Launch - 14.4.2008

South East MEP Warns Supermarkets To Prepare For EU Investigation As European Parliament Endorses Need For Action - 31.1.2008

As New Film Launches ‘Jamie Oliver’-Style Food Campaign At Sussex University, Green Party MEP Calls On Uni Management To Buy Local - 24.1.2008

Last Call For MEPs To Back Green Bid For Supermarket Investigation - 19.1.2008

Sussex Cull ‘Counterproductive And Cruel’ - Culling Badgers May Increase Spread Of Bovine TB, Warns Lucas - 6.11.2007

No To Call For More Supermarkets, Says Green MEP - 31.10.2007

MEP Bids For EU Investigation Of Supermarkets - Lucas Demands EU Protection for Farmers, Jobs And The Environment - 11.10.2007

70% Of EU Citizens Are Opposed To GM Crops, MEP Tells Conference - 13.6.2007

Green Euro-MP To Visit Farm Project In New Forest - 12.4.2007

Peak Oil Is Fuelling A Food Crisis, Warns Transition Town’s MEP On Visit to Lewes - 11.4.2007

Euro-MP Leads Debates On Nuclear Weapons And Food Security At Green Party Spring Conference - 20.3.2007

EU To Probe UK Handling Of Bird Flu Outbreak - 19.2.2007

Green MEP Demands Changes To EU Trade Rules To Prevent Bird Flu - 12.2.2007

EU Must Clarify Farming Rules To Stop Spread Of Bird Flu - 10.2.2007

MEP Attacks ‘Ignorance’ Of DEFRA Over Bird Flu Link - 5.2.2007

‘Supermarkets Inherently Unsustainable’ Says MEP, After Competition Commission Inquiry Misses Key Issues - 23.1.2007

Food Shortages Loom Unless We Make Organic Shift, Says MEP Ahead Of Conference - 23.1.2007

Dwindling Oil Supplies Threaten Global Food Crisis, Says Euro-MP - 19.12.2006

Green Euro-MP Visits Hampshire Organic Farm - 15.11.2006

Euro-MP Will Blame Bird ‘Flu On Factory Farming At LSE Meeting - 3.11.2006

Buying Fairtrade Saves Lives, Green Euro-MP Will Tell Gosport Meeting - 2.11.2006

Factory Farming And International Trade To Blame For Bird ‘Flu - 3.7.2006

Green Euro-MP Backs ‘Food Miles’ Campaign - 26.6.2006

EU-Morocco Fishing Partnership Breaches International Law, Warns MEP - 17.5.2006

EU Documents Reveal GM Safety Fears - 18.4.2006

Proposed EU-Morocco Partnership Legitimises Invasion Of Western Sahara And Breaches International Law, Warns Lucas - 12.4.2006

MEP Joins Southampton Fair Trade Discussion Day - 20.2.2006

MEP: Inhumane Bird Slaughter Heightens ‘Flu Risk’ - 24.1.2006

Cameron’s Organic Overtures ‘Meaningless’ – Green Euro-MP - 5.1.2006

Greens Welcome EU Ban On Live Export Subsides As Lucas Co-Sponsored Written Declaration Becomes Law - 4.1.2006

Typical Christmas Dinner Travels 30,000 Miles, Reveals Euro-MP - 14.12.2005

MEPs Reject Calls To Ban ‘Toxic’ Sweetener - 27.10.2005

MEPs Back Call To End To Cattle Cruelty - 12.7.2005

EU Battery Chicken Welfare Proposals Are Inadequate, Says Green MEP - 24.6.2005

Euro-MP Demands Ban On Kids’ Junk Food Ads - 20.4.2005

MEPs Demand End To Subsidised Cattle Cruelty - 12.4.2005

UN Summit Must Uphold ‘Terminator’ GM Seed Ban - 9.2.2005

Local Food Can Break Supermarket Dominance, Says Green MEP In Food Debate - 20.1.2005

Letters and Replies

Correspondence about Live Exports - 4.6.2008

Correspondence about the Common Agricultural Policy - 20.5.2008

Correspondence about GM Crops and Food - 5.5.2008

Correspondence about Local Food - 18.1.2008

Correspondence about Avian Flu - 18.4.2007

Correspondence about Agrofuels - 8.1.2007

Correspondence about Health Food Supplements - 24.6.2006

Correspondence about the Welfare of Egg Laying Hens - 18.12.2005

Correspondence about the Welfare of Broiler Chickens - 18.6.2005

In the Parliament

Resolution - Rising Food Prices - 14.5.2008

Written Questions - Animal Diseases - 13.5.2008

Written Questions - Poultry - 12.2.2008

Written Questions - EU Food Policy - 12.2.2008

Written Questions - Livestock Emissions - 18.12.2007

Written Declaration - Supermarkets - 27.10.2007

Written Questions - GMOs - 18.1.2007

Written Questions - Live Exports and Animal Transportation - 22.5.2006

Written Declaration - GM Food - 24.3.2006

Resolution - Biological Diversity and Biosafety - 13.3.2006

Written Questions - Chemicals - 2.3.2006

Written Questions - Agrofuels and Biodiesel - 30.1.2006

Written Declaration - Exposure to Pesticide - 8.4.2004

Written Declaration - Marketing of Foods to Children - 3.3.2004

Reports

Fuelling A Food Crisis - 8.12.2006

Avian Flu - Time To Shut The Intensive Poultry Flu Factories? - 5.7.2006

Towards a GM Free Europe - 15.7.2003

Local Food - Benefits and Opportunities - 15.7.2003

Speeches

Plenary - GMOs - 23.4.2008

(Listen & Watch) Caroline on Biofuels - 8.2.2008

Poverty, Patents, Poultry: The Global Politics of Avian Flu - 3.11.2006

Plenary - Avian Flu Pandemic - 25.10.2005

Plenary - Genetically Modified Organisms - 1.7.2003

Plenary - Foot And Mouth Disease - 17.12.2002