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Soyfood leader: ‘We are not against animal-based food’
SPECIAL REPORT / Vegetable-based foods may offer consumers a number of advantages compared to meats, such as lower fat content and a lower carbon. Bernard Deryckere, a soyfood industry leader, explains why he wants food to reflect its real costs and why he is not against animal-based products.
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Health experts call for EU to move on eating habits
SPECIAL REPORT / Health campaigners are calling for the European Commission to take action to alter people’s eating habits and curb rising obesity, but officials are wary that such a move may expose them to “nanny state” complaints, sources say.
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EU gradually turning green in food security debate
SPECIAL REPORT / With the world's population expected to rise to nine billion by 2050, European regulators are pushing for a gradually greener approach to food sustainability, warning that demand for food could cause a number of related crises, such as runaway carbon emissions, waste and obesity.
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Soyfood chief calls for harmonised GM food labels
SPECIAL REPORT / The president of the European Natural Soyfood Manufacturers Association (ENSA), Bernard Deryckere, has called on the EU to better direct consumers towards foods that are not genetically-modified, perhaps by introducing GM-free labels across the food industry.
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Brussels: reducing waste first piece in food resource puzzle
SPECIAL REPORT / To tackle pollution and climate change, policy-makers, NGOs and industry alike support more vegetables in Europeans' diets, while insisting on better use of resources and waste-management.
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CAP reform favours the greening, not the individual industry
SPECIAL REPORT / European regulators and producers alike are confident that the change in the balance of direct payments, redrawn in the Common Agriculture Policy, will improve ‘greening’ practices and ultimately boost demand and productions for more natural foods.
