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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.co...

Food Waste The topic Food Waste is frequently discussed on Twitter. Beside the Hashtag #FoodWaste the counterpoint #SaveFood is often used in tweets as well. FAOKnowledge put the area used for the production of food which will be wasted into perspective: #DidYouKnow 1.4bln hectares of land is used annually to produce food that is lost or wasted? http://t.co/JgY2VxEyuG #UNFAO #SaveFood — FAOKnowledge (@FAOKnowledge) 11. Dezember 2013

Following a selection of topics which gained my attention on twitter in particular: Green Primary With the aim to involve european citizens in their politics the European Greens opened the election for the two Green leading candidates for all "green- minded people". Ppl from all 28 EU countries have already participated in the #GreenPrimary . http://t.co/kpuF0Kykm4 Vote now 4 real pan-European democracy! — European Greens (@europeangreens) 6. Dezember 2013 Take part and find out more about it here .