The European Green Deal: FEFAC committed to development of sustainable livestock and aquaculture

FEFAC, representing the EU compound feed and premix industry, is offering its full cooperation to help achieve the new EU Commission's objectives laid down in the 'Green Deal, for the journey towards carbon-neutral livestock and aquaculture production in Europe.

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 The European feed industry has been a long-time investor in research and development to provide innovative animal nutrition solutions to farmers, helping them to address the challenge of climate change. FEFAC's members are recognised world leaders in resource efficiency & applied animal nutrition science, upgrading and converting low value co-products of the food and biofuel industry into high-value foodstuffs of animal origin (e.g. meat, dairy, eggs and fish).

FEFAC President Nick Major highlights that the EU livestock and aquaculture sector only represents 10 percent of all GHG emissions in the EU. He recalls that feed production and products of animal origin are an essential component of sustainable food systems, 'Farm animals including fish consume 86 percent 'non-human edible' feedingstuffs, according to FAO, meaning the feed sector plays a key part in a truly circular economy, by keeping and upgrading nutrients present in a vast range of co-products, like sunflower & rapemeal, sugarbeet pulp & molasses, brewers grains and wheat bran'.

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