European Parliament criticizes EU sales promotion for too much advertising of organic products

When it comes to promoting EU agricultural products, ideology is too big a role. Otherwise it could not be that more than a quarter of the EU budget goes to sales promotion for organic products, complains MEP Herbert Dorfmann of the Christian Democrats. Organic products with a share of 7% of agricultural production in the EU are thus clearly overrepresented, emphasized Dorfmann according to aiz, info. He criticized the EU Commission, which wanted to enforce its Green Deal with all its might. The chairman of the Agriculture Committee in the European Parliament, Norbert Lins (CDU), took up the idea and accused the EU Commission of wanting to introduce the "farm to fork" strategy "from behind" without waiting for a proper legislative process, reports the press service continue. Numerous MEPs also rejected an overweight for organic products, especially since a considerable part of these would have to be imported into the EU and so the sales promotion would not benefit EU farmers at ...