European protein strategy

This report was a missed opportunity. The EU is heavily dependent on imports of plant proteins, especially for animal feed, a reality with many negative impacts, including a worsening climate and biodiversity crisis and risks to food security. While the report partially acknowledges this situation, it does not explicitly recognize the need to better adapt our protein production in the EU to our limited natural resources, namely by adapting the livestock sector to the EU's own capacity to produce protein crops and encouraging greater plant protein production and consumption.
By calling for a general increase in protein production indiscriminately, this report fails to fully address the real challenges.
New genomic techniques, feed additives and weaker regulations on biofuels or nitrates will not solve this situation and will exacerbate the environmental crisis.
I obviously voted against.

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