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"Food wastage has reached enormous proportions today, and should therefore be viewed as a global problem. It can be considered to be present throughout the entire food chain, from the producers to the consumers. According to estimates, more than half of our healthy and edible foodstuffs is wasted. The issue of food wastage contradicts the fundamental problem of food security, because the world’s population is steadily growing and with it, the access of the poorest strata of society to food is becoming increasingly limited, not to mention that the superfluous production of foodstuffs that are not consumed entails high environmental costs. The reasons behind wasteful behaviour, however, are not the same in every case. Whilst, in industrialised countries, the issue is chiefly concentrated around marketing and consumption due to the abundance of foodstuffs produced, in developing countries, it is caused by a lack of advanced agricultural procedures and safe storage options. These data clearly show that the amounts of food produced today should be reused for food purposes instead of simply being discarded like any other waste. The fight against food wastage should become a priority item on the agenda of European politics. A concrete strategy needs to be elaborated in order to cut food wastage in half across the entire food supply chain by 2025. I consider it extremely important to inform citizens not only about the reasons and consequences of wastage, but also about the methods of its reduction. I supported the report with my vote."@en1
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