ANAFRIC, as an entity adhering to “El Sentido de la Carne”, has joined the AECOC Week against Food Waste. In this way, ANAFRIC seeks to raise awareness about the importance of reducing food waste, supporting the large number of activities and projects that AECOC will launch, aimed at adding value to food and increasing consumer awareness to win the battle against food waste. This edition will have the participation of schools, academic centers, leading companies in the distribution and food industry, administrations and third sector organizations.
With its adherence to the AECOC Week against Food Waste, ANAFRIC also wants to highlight the good practices that the meat sector has been applying for some time in this area. In this sense, the initiative wants to highlight that products of animal origin generate very little food waste and the surplus is minimal. In Spain, this percentage is also very low, and only accounts for 7.1% of total food waste.
This figure is very relevant given that wasted food in the European Union generates 170 million tons of CO2 emissions per year, which represents 17% of the EU’s direct greenhouse gas emissions.
Furthermore, livestock farming drives a good number of circular economy practices and contributes to the fight against food loss and food waste. One example is the use of many by-products of plant production intended for human use for livestock feed. These by-products would end up in landfills if they were not used as a basis for animal feed.
The meat industry is also fighting against food waste with research and R&D work to continuously improve product design, such as formulations to increase the consumption and expiration dates of foods or the design of packaging that guarantees a longer shelf life for meat and processed foods through improvements in storage, production and transport infrastructure, among others.
ANAFRICZERO, ANAFRIC’s contribution
Faced with this concern, ANAFRIC, the meat business association, has continued with its communication campaign launched a year ago to disseminate what the meat sector is doing to stop waste and to raise awareness of the “necessary and essential” contribution of all the links in the meat industry to stop climate change and contribute to a better distribution of food on a global level.
Contents aimed at different audiences
The campaign can be viewed on the website anafriczero.anafric.es where a sector and a profession with a green future are highlighted. This blog reviews updated data on the meat sector and segments its content into four different objectives, depending on the audience it wishes to impact: restaurants, domestic sphere, work sphere and commercial establishments.
