FEARS OF overfishing may put mackerel’s comeback on hold as customers face a tough choice between eating healthily and sustainably. What a difference two years make. This time in 2011, mackerel was riding on the crest of a wave – in plentiful supply, promoted as [...]
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THE EUROPEAN Parliament today voted to back a major reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The new proposals aim to cut fishing to sustainable stock levels, end dumping at sea (discards), and base long-term planning on sound scientific data. Environmental groups have welcomed [...]
THE EUROPEAN Commission has published its vision of what a resource efficient Europe will look like: more environmental reporting and fewer resource-intensive products. In a world with growing pressures on resources and the environment, the Commission called for the creation of better market conditions for products and [...]
AROUND 40,000 ILLEGAL pigs an hour will be entering the European food chain in January and bacon, ham and pizzas containing their meat is destined for Britains supermarkets, corner shops and restaurants, according to the National Pig Association (NPA). The pigs will come from continental farms where [...]
THE FOOD industry needs to start treating food waste as a resource if it is to solve Europes 90 million tonne food waste problem. But, like first timers at Alcoholics Anonymous, everyone has to accept they have a waste problem before they can start to solve [...]
NEW SERVICES and an accreditation scheme have been launched to help caterers get to grips with new laws around gluten-free claims and take advantage of the £100m gluten-free market. Coeliac UK, the charity, has produced a catering training package entitled: Accessing the Gluten-Free Pound: Preparing [...]
EU Ministers have reached general compromise on the main proposals for reforming the Common Fisheries Policy from 2013. The proposal would give fleets quota shares guaranteed for at least 15 years and would see discards phased out. Now the horse trading starts. See proposed changes.
Why Farming Matters
By footprint on August 5, 2010
Published in: Comment, Health and Vitality and tagged agriculture, EU, EU Agriculture, European Union, National Farmers Union, NFU, UN, United Nations, Why Farming Matters.
…to the nations economy, environment and our health. In contradiction to the idea that food production is one of the major scourges on the environment, the NFU firmly believes that agriculture is actually part of the solution to climate change. When the NFU launched its campaign Why Farming Matters almost four years ago, [...]