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🔥 MUST READ! 🥗 This policy brief outlines the main opportunities and concerns surrounding a shift towards plant-based diets and further production and consumption of novel sources of proteins. 🇪🇺 It also explores the role of EU policy in maximising the benefits and responding to the concerns linked to this shift. #dietaryshift #proteintransition #alternativeproteins #sustainability #plantforwarddiet

Europe's Pesticide Problem: A Threat to Health and Environment While Europe champions food safety and environmental awareness, its heavy reliance on pesticides poses a double threat. These chemicals endanger our health, linked to cancers, neurological issues, and hormonal disruption. They also disrupt ecosystems, harming pollinators crucial for agriculture and contaminating water sources. The solution lies in reducing pesticide use. Sustainable practices like crop rotation and biological control can create a healthier, more resilient agricultural system. Additionally, stricter regulations and investment in safer alternatives are essential. Let's choose organic produce, advocate for change, and spread awareness. A Europe free from excessive pesticides benefits us all - a healthier population, a thriving environment, and a secure food system. #ReducePesticides #HealthyEurope Ruby Ketting Olivier

The use of pesticides in modern agriculture presents a dichotomy of gains and risks for human health and the environment. This issue gains urgency amidst the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, which threatens human development progress. Current trends indicate that Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track, highlighting the severity of the situation. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) define highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) as chemicals posing acute or chronic health or environmental risks. Chemicals like pesticides, fertilizers, and food additives bolster crop yields and food quality but also pose health risks, including cancer and neurological disorders. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns of growing dangers from hazardous chemicals. WHO reports three million pesticide poisoning cases annually, causing around 220,000 deaths, with HHPs contributing significantly. Approximately 20% of global suicides involve pesticide ingestion, especially prevalent in low- and middle-income countries due to lax regulations and inadequate disposal facilities. Alarmingly, 95% of 385 million annual pesticide poisoning cases occur in the Global South. Effective management of chemicals is imperative for resilient and healthier food systems, necessitating global cooperation and stringent regulations. #PesticidesAndPlanetaryCrisis #GreeningAgriculture #ClimateBiodiversityPollution #SustainableFarming #EnvironmentalBalance #SafeFoodSystems #GlobalChallenges #ProtectOurPlanet #HealthyEnvironment #ResilientAgriculture #FutureGenerations #BalancedDevelopment #RegenerativeFarming #ClimateActionNow #BiodiversityProtection

📣 GREAT NEWS! While I wholly agree with this recommendation, the headline puts the onus on the consumer instead of also urging production of meat and dairy to be halved, as well as encouraging institutions and facilities that serve these foods and food products to commit to sourcing less of it. The current industrial meat and dairy industries need to be recognized as significant contributors to #greenhousegas emissions, #biodiversity loss and land erosion. This doesn't mean cutting out these foods completely, but it emphasizes the absolute urgency there is with shifting what we produce/serve/procure/eat/demand/subsidize and advocate for. We all have a part to play. #producelessmeat #eatlessmeat #servelessmeat #regionspecific #plantbased #plantforward #chefs #dietitians

End #Slaugherhouses End #Wars! Have you ever wondered about the #aggressive negative #energy it takes to #slaughter a living entity an #animal or for that matter a human! We all sense vibes, good #vibes bad vibes when we walk into a room or sense something has happened to a loved one from across the world. These vibes travel faster than light and infiltrate our very souls. Have you ever stopped to think why generations of leaders can’t prevent war! Why people qaurel? Could the mass #slaughter of animals, to eat, have anything to do with the vibe of aggression in the world! Vibes spread to our deepest #subconscious. Have you thought about what the world would be like - what difference it would make to the vibe, the energy on the planet if the dark #aggression of the #slaughterhouses was ended? Could this just be the missing #link to reducing agression in the world! To end wars end #quarrels- even the best #thinkers and leaders have failed to end wars - so there must be a missing link. It seems far out but there is some logic to it in my view - stop the slaughter of animals and you stop the mode of aggression - its the same agression that leads to wars to #quarrel and ultimately to the slaughter of #human beings.

🛑 Want to know more about Advancing Food Loss Technologies and Policies? Join us on February 13th, at 10am at European Parliament to hear our outstanding speakers cover how food waste and loss is mitigated with innovative processes! How do companies lower GHG emissions, preserve land, and save biodiversity? How does the food supply chain play a role in the innovative processes and advanced technologies? What challenges are ahead? Discover the answers to these pivotal questions at our upcoming roundtable talk! To find out more about the agenda and register follow this link 👉 https://bit.ly/3w0txlK  Pietro Paganini Rosa D'Amato Alexandra Nikolakopoulou Gyula Kasza COPA COGECA Federica Dolce Malte Piontek Claudio Zanframundo Trane Technologies Thermo King Europe Christophe Diercxsens Federica Grassi Salvatore De Meo #Food #Waste #FoodSustainability #policy #EU #technology #innovation #supplychain #agriculture #distribution #GHG #biodiversity #FoodSecurity 

There is #OnlyOneEarth! The state of the planet affects us all – both now and in the future. 5 June is #WorldEnvironmentDay. "Sustainable #FoodSystems are needed to safeguard human and environmental health, political stability and better livelihoods with less environmental consequences" - HLPE-FSN Report # 14 "Agroecological approaches and other innovations for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition". Read more: https://lnkd.in/dJsfN6PT UN Environment Programme Committee on World Food Security CSIPM Mechanism of the UN Committee on WorldFoodSecurity UN-Nutrition

It's time to shut down the #UN, a fully corrupt captured agency by whactivists who can't think critically. Do they even know the amount of emissions from all other animals combined versus cows? These people are clinically insane, a real death cult.🤪 One question: if all cows were eliminated, what reduction of CO2 from 0.04% would be achieved, and what noticeable effect would it have? Answer: Nothing at all, you'd measure and notice nothing. However, you'd greatly increase starvation and malnutrition to make people weak and susceptible to disease so they can jab some more toxins into people for profit and depopulation targets! If they truly cared and had a thinking brain, they'd be promoting regenerative farming, a CO2 capture system that works in balance with nature. 🙃 #ClimateChange #LeaveTheCowsAlone #Ranching https://lnkd.in/gEuW_sRy

How can we halve nitrogen pollution by rethinking the food chain? Nitrogen efficiency in European food systems is only 18%, according to a new report, ''Appetite for Change'', co-produced by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the European Commission, Copenhagen Business School and the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). This means that the remaining nitrogen is lost to the environment, contributing to air, water and soil pollution that threatens our environment, biodiversity and human health. While some nitrogen in animal manure and fertilizers is beneficial for soil productivity, excess nitrogen in food and water can be dangerous and increase the risk of non-communicable diseases such as cancer, thyroid disease and heart disease. Therefore, the nitrogen efficiency of the European food system, including farms, retailers and wastewater systems, needs to be improved.   Combined efforts, involving not only farmers but also policy makers, industry and consumers, are needed to reduce nitrogen pollution from food production. Approaches can include improving farm and food chain management, improving wastewater treatment systems, and reducing food waste by retailers and consumers. In addition, halving meat and dairy consumption and promoting more plant-based diets can benefit both human health and the environment. Below we highlight some other areas for action to reduce nitrogen pollution by rethinking our food systems. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dCZQ6YGm https://lnkd.in/d7esHN94   #UNEP #UNESCO #BMUV #UBA #TUD #CIPSEM #globalgoals #scholarship #SDGs #sustainability #nitrogen #foodsystems

📝 The FAO launched the first version of its roadmap to cut food and agriculture emissions. The Global Roadmap for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 without Breaching the 1.5°C Threshold highlights the different actions we need to take to transform food production in response to the climate crisis and global hunger, while limiting the global temperature to 1.5°C. Presented at the COP28 UAE, the roadmap outlines 120 actions, including clean energy, fisheries, food waste, forests, wetlands, healthy nutrition, livestock, soil, and water. Ultimately, the aim is to reduce methane emissions from agrifood production by 25% by 2030 and halve food waste by 2030 to reach carbon neutrality by 2035. The roadmap also acknowledged the need to change diets to reduce meat and dairy emissions, but that plant-based foods are not enough as a source of certain nutrients. Check out the full roadmap here: https://lnkd.in/e44Q4ySd #ForwardFooding #foodsystem #climatechange #climateaction #emissions #sustainability