Seven civil society organisations have written to DG Environment today, calling on them to leave the "European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable (SCP Roundtable)". The promise of inclusion and broad stakeholder participation by the food industry funded organization however has never materialized. Instead of involving key stakeholders in the food chain like consumers, environmentalists, farmers and other members of civil society, the SCP leadership and membership at the time of writing consists entirely of the food and beverage industry.
The agenda and mission of the Roundtable do not reflect the key questions that environmental, social and consumers' groups have about the sustainability of the entire food chain, in particular socio-economic impacts. The exclusive nature of the costly, unaccountable and undemocratic process contravenes the purported broad stakeholder process.
Read the Open Letter, the Environment Commissioner's response, and our response to that, here:
