The dense network illustrates a “well oiled machine” of intersecting influence that is preventing Ireland from addressing its poor air and water quality and meeting its climate targets, campaigners say.

DeSmog re-launches investigative series to track agribusiness’ influence over climate and nature policy in a critical year for decisions on the future of food and farming.

Brazilian meat giant JBS invested just 0.03 percent of annual revenues into climate measures, researchers found.

DeSmog analysed misleading statements by farming groups, media influencers, and political candidates in France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Ireland.

Some cast doubt on the climate science, while others painted EU regulators as part of an authoritarian “sect” wishing to control citizens through green measures.

Gerrit Schoeters, a Belgian cattle farmer, said he was unhappy about the prominent far-right imagery at the demonstration in Brussels.

Big and small farming groups have decided against attending the demo on the eve of the EU elections.

Europe’s top meat and dairy producers are partly responsible for a ‘backslide’ on key climate and green targets, according to a new analysis.

Panellists criticised net zero as “stupid propaganda” and suggested that climate action would “take us back to the dark ages”.

The nascent Orka movement has gained access to the president after vowing to toss the EU’s Green Deal “in the trash”.