Since we’ve just published the November 2021 issue, it may be a little early for an article for 2022. These types of articles are usually included in the December or January issue, but I was a little early, inspired by the interview we had with FEFANA Communications Manager Chiara Bellone de Grecis.
As you know, the agenda of the global livestock industry is extremely busy. Maybe busier than ever before… This agenda includes many remarkable and vital issues such as antibiotic-free production, sustainability, efficiency, environmental footprint, carbon emissions, alternative proteins, feed safety, food safety, and animal welfare. Each topic represents a question, and industry representatives do hundreds of different studies for finding the answers to each question, focusing on developing alternatives…
So, which of these issues will be the main agenda of the industry in 2022? Does the feed additives industry, which is at the center of all these topics, offer solutions that can answer the “How” question?
The topics that the industry is working on intensively tell us that all the above topics will be the only topics on our agenda in 2022. However, I think two issues in particular will come to the fore. The first of these will be to reduce the carbon or, more broadly, the environmental footprint in animal production. Because the importance of tackling climate change has been better understood, especially in the last few years. The fact that this issue is now on the agenda and being discussed more everywhere is an indication of this. In particular, the European Union’s zero-carbon commitment until 2050 and the laws to be published in this regard will also heavily affect the livestock industry in 2022, which is considered to have a significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, especially methane emissions.
Another important agenda topic is of course “Sustainability”… In fact, sustainability represents a very broad approach that covers every single agenda item I mentioned above. From environmental footprint to efficiency, from antibiotic-free production to alternative proteins, from feed safety to animal welfare… Each issue is the key to the transition to “sustainable production”… We have an increasing world population, increasing nutritional needs, and in turn, limited resources that have become riskier with the effect of climate change…
We are moving fast towards the years when we will have to research what, why, and how we will use it and what the results will be when we use it. We hope that the feed additive industry will continue to guide the industry in all these matters with its research and solutions it developed…
Good reads…
