Animal concerns heard
The AGM of the Quaker Concern for Animals was held on 21 May
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) held its annual general meeting at Friends House on Saturday 21 May.
Sixteen members attended. After Meeting for Worship, they heard about the organisation’s work in 2015 and shared news of campaigns. The guest speaker was Geoff Tansey, an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University.
He gave an overview of the food system, explaining how it is now deeply entangled with the legal instruments surrounding intellectual property and cutting-edge genetic research, but remains at its heart a biological system situated within the context of shifting human needs. Geoff also stressed that the distortion of the system in favour of increasingly fewer, more wealthy and more powerful actors has had massively negative impacts on third world farmers and food growers (the majority of whom are women), on the poor in our own country and, globally, on the environment and on animals.
