At the meeting of European Parliament’s Sustainable Livestock Intergroup on Thursday 10 July, MEP Benoît Cassart (Renew Europe, Belgian) promoted a specific European approach for this sector, based on the EU’s own sustainability, animal welfare and social justice criteria.
He pointed out that the European livestock model is unique and that the standards applied to it are among the strictest in the world. But these requirements come at a cost. “If we don’t have a coherent policy to...