Good Food March protesters call for greener farming policies

Farmers and activists from all over the continent converged on European Union headquarters on Wednesday to push for a food policy that is fairer to family farmers and kinder to the environment and developing nations.

Behind tractors, several hundred protesters, some of whom have been cycling or walking for weeks in the Good Food March, gathered for a mass brunch outside the European Parliament in Brussels, where a reform of the costly pan-EU farm system is being discussed.

From the culinary Slow Food movement to the Friends of the Earth environmental group, eight major organizations set up the march in order to push demands to drastically revamp policy away from industrial farming.