FARM TO FORK LEGISLATION IS RESTRICTIVE AND DAMAGING, SAY EXPERTS
February 21st, 2022
EUROPE’S dairy production and trade must not suffer from the implementation of the European Union (EU)’s farm to fork (F2F) plans (1), announced May 2020 and at the heart of the European Green Deal to “make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly,” dairy experts have told Dairy Industries International (DII). They argue that many of its plans, for example on mandatory origin labelling and related environmental reforms, are restrictive, too expensive and will hamper competitiveness. They also ignore dairy farming’s environmental benefits, ...
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