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Green Week The international green week started on Friday hence it is a big topic in the food and agriculture related twitter community.  If you have a look at the twitpics with the hashtag #greenweek it is quite obvious that it is not only the fair, which is connected with this term. Many pictures show scenery's or banners from the protests coming with the fair: Tweets über "#greenweek" European Election This May the new European Parliament will be voted. The European Commission spreads a short video an Twitter asking for the readers view on environment and immigration. I think it is a good sign, seeing environment as one of two topics mentioned: Do we need an EU army? What is your view about #environment or #immigration in EU? Your Vote Counts! http://t.co/LpVmlOfPzG #EP2014 #eudeb8 — European Commission (@EU_Commission) 19. Januar 2014 What was your trending topic on twitter last week? Did you or are you planing to visit the Green Week? Did you

In the second week of 2014 two topics got my attention in particular. Both have a connection to the food fair "International Green Week" starting this Friday in Berlin. Meat Atlas The Meat Atlas 2014 was published this week, in time for the Green Week. Many statements and illustrations were replicated on Twitter. It is available in German and in English . Due to this important hashtags are    #Fleischatlas  and   #meatatlas . Meat consumption increases, factory farms grow. Our #meatatlas launched today with @boell_stiftung . http://t.co/WklXZvQIAQ — Friends of the Earth (@foeeurope) 9. Januar 2014 "Wir haben es statt" A annual demonstration in Berlin during the Green Week claims good food and good farming for everyone. The majority of the twitter content is in German. A often used Hashtag is  #WirHabenEsSatt . #WirHabenEsSatt ! Sei dabei mit uns gegen #Massentierhaltung , #Gentechnik , #TTIP und für ökolog. #Landwirtschaft . pic.twitter.com/n1hXcO7

The IFOAM EU Group created a youtube channel with expert interviews discussing different aspects of the new Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. The videos are part of the Mind the CAP campaign which  " seeks to raise awareness and increase understanding of the Common Agricultural Policy among farmers and citizens from the perspective of the organic movement " (1). Most videos are in English and only a few minutes long. In all other cases you can use the subtitles offered from youtube. I think they are really informative and nicely put together, so I'm quite surprised about the fact most of them count so few views to this point. read more: (1) Mind the CAP campaign:  http://www.ifoam-eu.org/en/mind-cap/mind-cap-campaign