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The European Pirates support the need for urgent action to secure food supply both within the Union and outside, and the Union should do all it can. However, one thing it should not do is use the war and looming food insecurity as an excuse to dismantle its earlier commitments towards sustainable, healthy, and environmentally friendly food production. Unfortunately, this could be the unwanted outcome of the resolution, when it proposes measures that would undermine the Green Deal, the ‘farm to fork’ strategy, weaken the common agricultural policy’s strategic plans, raise the limit of the Nitrates Directive, and allow pesticide use on ecological focus areas, etc.
Among other points, we disagree with the idea that a solution to ensure food security in the short and medium term should be the diversification of supply from third countries. This might be an option when it comes to energy, where there are fewer immediate possibilities for the Union to replace sources from Russia with its own. However, in terms of food, we have tools at our disposal in the Union that we should exploit before creating new types of dependencies. Therefore, we voted against the resolution.