A Conservative MP is calling on Canadian consumers to support farmers as the federal government pushes policies to reduce fertilizer emissions, which he said are hurting the farming industry and leading to higher food prices.
“Farmers and consumers around the world are pushing back. They’re pushing back against the European Union’s farm-to-fork agenda, which is making farming unsustainable, food prices skyrocket, and food insecurity even more of a crisis,” John Barlow, Conservative MP for Foothills, Alberta, said in a video posted on social media on June 15.
The farm-to-fork agenda, introduced in May 2020, claims that a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions came from food production, and it aims to “[transform] the way food is produced and consumed” to reduce impacts on the environment….