Follow the Money
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In December 2019, Tracks investigated how European taxpayers’ money is been used by European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to fund activities that are detrimental to the environment, animal welfare, and sustainable agriculture. This project was in collaboration with Compassion In World Farming (CIWF).
Tracks approached CIWF with a campaign proposal entitled “Follow the Money’ – a series of investigations looking into how taxpayers’ money from around the world was being channeled into publicly owned banks and then used to fund big agribusiness projects that are detrimental to the environment.
The results were shocking: animal and farmworker abuse; local communities driven to the edge; environmental damage.
The first expose called “Banking on Brutality” focused on ERBD funding in Turkey. We wanted to know more about the effect that their investments were having on farm animals, on communities, and on the countryside. On EBRD-funded intensive farms and slaughterhouses in Turkey, we documented evidence of brutal animal handling and horrendous environmental damage.
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