War and the Food Fight The intra-EU debate over F2F was bubbling under the surface but like lava flowing out of a rupture in the earth’s crust, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a public fight over its future. French President Emmanuel Macron is using the war to pivot farm policy toward food independence and sovereignty. The Dutch have resurfaced their idea of relaxing pollution standards to allow increased use of animal manure in lieu of the fertilizer shortage. But EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Stella Kyriakides argues the war reinforces the need for F2F and its goal of achieving sustainability. Some say it is a debate between safety and security, but the problem is that those words have two different sp...

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