13 Amendments of Marco ZULLO related to 2015/2227(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recognises that consumers across EU demand a better food quality and safety while reducing the environmental impact of agriculture and farming;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Recognises that meat and dairy overconsumption might cause health problems and their massive production is highly energy intensive, resources consuming and has a considerable impact on GHGs emission;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Stresses the need to launch educational campaign on healthy diets and habits to prevent food induced diseases;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to tackle food waste, since each year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted or lost, and the need to address the wasteful use of cereals as animal feed in intensive production systems - which is an inefficient and environmentally damaging use of land and resources - instead of using these crops to feed people directly;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses, therefore, the importance of supporting farmers in the transition to more sustainable and humane agricultural practices, with the aim of increasing efficiency and productivity while ensuring food safety, the protection of human and animal health and welfare and a reduction in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that some breeding technologies like marker assisted selection (MAS) can play an important role in selecting varieties with improved taste, better resistance to biotic and abiotic stressing factors that can help further wide spread of organic farming as well as restoring endangered local varieties and species;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Insists that farm management practices should ensure the protection of water and soil quality and minimise biodiversity loss, halt the biodiversity loss in the short period and facilitate biodiversity recovery and wide spread in the medium- long term;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Highlights the key role played by organic and biodynamic farming in preserving natural resources , preventing environmental pollution and directly and indirectly preserving biodiversity;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the need for an integration of production and processing, by promoting producers groups and encouraging short supply chains which might help in reducing the carbon footprint of the food supplying chain while providing local, fresher and healthier products for consumers;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls upon the Commission and Member States to discourage industrial intensive farming because of its huge environmental impact;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges Member States to launch programs to encourage farmers to invest on species differentiation, to grow local varieties and to abandon monocultures;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls upon the Commission and Member State to invest on the improvement of the varieties of endemic plant species which could be suitable for animal feeding in order to reduce the dependence on the import of animal feed often made up of genetically engineered plants;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls upon the Commission and Member States to invest on technologies to increase water and energy efficiency, to reduce the dependence on fossil fuel, to include agriculture in the circular economy and to enhance animal welfare.