Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-19-Speech-4-340-937"
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"I voted in favour of this report because reducing food waste, responding to the increase in demand predicted by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and improving people’s nutritional levels are the first important step in combating global hunger. Every year in Europe, an increasing amount of healthy, edible food is lost along the entire food supply chain, in some cases, all the way up to the consumer, and becomes waste. Furthermore, food waste not only has ethical, economic, social and nutritional implications, but also health and environmental ones, because unconsumed food mountains make a major contribution to global warming and food waste produces methane, which, as a greenhouse gas, is 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The European Parliament therefore calls on the Council, the Commission, the Member States and players in the food supply chain to address as a matter of urgency the problem of food waste along the entire supply and consumption chain and to devise guidelines for, and support ways of, improving the efficiency of the food supply chain sector by sector. The European Parliament also calls on the Commission to assess and encourage measures to reduce food waste upstream, such as dual-date labelling (‘sell by’ and ‘use by’), and the discounted sale of foods close to their expiry date and of damaged goods."@en1
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