EU’s proposed food labelling bad news for farmers

“As part of its new Farm to Fork strategy, the European Commission of the EU has presented a series of measures directed at helping consumers make healthier food choices and at promoting more sustainable food consumption patterns.

Being consumers themselves, farmers support policies that could contribute to improving consumers’ eating habits and health. However, after reading the proposals regarding nutrition information contained in the recently published Farm to Fork strategy, many farmers are concerned that not only would the commission fail to achieve those objectives, but the proposals would severely undercut an already fragile EU farming community and compromise years of effort to promote its high production standards around the world.

FOOD LABELLING

In its strategy, the commission proposes harmonised