IOFGA (Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association) reports that the European Union has launched an EU wide student competition to develop a new organic logo which will be used on organic products across Europe. The aim is to attract entries from art and design students from across the EU. To enter you must be over [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Competition to create a new EU organic logo open to Irish students
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IOFGA welcomes EU Directive to ban cages used in battery egg production
The Irish Organic Farmers & Growers Association (IOFGA) welcomes the EU Directive to outlaw the cages currently used in battery egg production in three years time. A spokesman for IOFGA said, ‘Most consumers of battery eggs don’t realise the conditions in which the poultry used to produce these eggs are kept. On these factory farms, [...]
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Gm Crops Fail To Deliver
In a recent press statement The (UK) National Beef Association called for all resistance to GM crops, at both UK and EU level, to be abandoned immediately. This is a very short sighted view on agriculture and GM crops and one which is clearly ill informed. GM lobbyists have been promising the miracles of GM [...]