Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-01-19-Speech-4-353-500"
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"I wished to express my support for this report, as I feel it is essential for there to be an effective fight against food wastage. Recent investigations have shown that in Europe, the amount of healthy, edible food that is lost along the entire food supply chain stands at around 50%, a figure that is quite frankly unacceptable. The world population is continuing to grow and, in the coming years, the global food supply challenge needs to be tackled and solved. It is therefore only right that we should begin not to waste what we already have at our disposal. In addition to causing economic harm to producers and consumers, the wastage of food also has a significant impact from a social point of view, and that is why the actions should be encouraged to support the collection and recovery at local level of unsold or discarded but perfectly usable products, so that they may, for example, be redistributed to the needy. The European Union must be the standard-bearer for best practices in this area, and ensure that they develop throughout Europe: EU institutions themselves should lead by example, pledging to reduce waste in staff canteens."@en1
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