From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model
The European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims...
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| author | Alessandra Mazzeo Patrizio Tremonte Silvia Jane Lombardi Costantino Caturano Arianna Correra Elena Sorrentino |
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| description | The European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims at spreading organic farms adopting the circular economy, in order to improve human health through both better environmental conditions and healthier food. Nevertheless, zoonoses cause sanitary cost in terms of infected farm personnel, lower productivity, and lower fertility of infected farm animals. In such scenarios, the decreased breeding yield and the lower income induce higher cost of farm products, meaning that the market price rises, becoming uncompetitive when compared to the prices of industrial products. Consequently, lower revenues can hinder the farm growth expected in the framework of the EU Green Deal. Since zoonosis control is a key element in aligning EU policies aimed at achieving the EU Green Deal goal of “ZERO environmental impact” by 2050, the authors suggest the inclusion of the parameter economic health in the OH approach, in order to individuate EU Member States (MSs) economically unable to conduct eradication programmes and to finance them. Economic health is here considered as a starting point of the new ethical and science-based One Health Financial Model that the authors suggest as an in-embryo model, in which specific rules should regulate public funds, private investments, and trading, which should exclusively concern public services and private enterprises complying with most of the OH parameters. In this way, economic losses due to collateral negative effects deriving from human activities can be progressively decreased, and the entire planet will benefit from the process. Despite the considerable efforts being carried out in the context of the OH approach, war causes tragic and devastating effects on the physical and mental health of human beings, on their lives, on pandemic and zoonotic threats, on animals, on plants and, last but not least, on the environment. War is incompatible with OH. Enormous efforts for peace are therefore urgently needed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c35585c8926b40f2b51224f61ae686202023-11-23T16:12:11ZengMDPI AGFoods2304-81582022-09-011118273610.3390/foods11182736From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial ModelAlessandra Mazzeo0Patrizio Tremonte1Silvia Jane Lombardi2Costantino Caturano3Arianna Correra4Elena Sorrentino5Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via De Sanctis snc, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyThe European Union (EU) adopts the One Health (OH) approach, based on the relationships between human, animal, and environmental health. OH concerns a multitude of aspects, some of which are discussed here. OH overlaps the European Green Deal plan and its relaunched Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims at spreading organic farms adopting the circular economy, in order to improve human health through both better environmental conditions and healthier food. Nevertheless, zoonoses cause sanitary cost in terms of infected farm personnel, lower productivity, and lower fertility of infected farm animals. In such scenarios, the decreased breeding yield and the lower income induce higher cost of farm products, meaning that the market price rises, becoming uncompetitive when compared to the prices of industrial products. Consequently, lower revenues can hinder the farm growth expected in the framework of the EU Green Deal. Since zoonosis control is a key element in aligning EU policies aimed at achieving the EU Green Deal goal of “ZERO environmental impact” by 2050, the authors suggest the inclusion of the parameter economic health in the OH approach, in order to individuate EU Member States (MSs) economically unable to conduct eradication programmes and to finance them. Economic health is here considered as a starting point of the new ethical and science-based One Health Financial Model that the authors suggest as an in-embryo model, in which specific rules should regulate public funds, private investments, and trading, which should exclusively concern public services and private enterprises complying with most of the OH parameters. In this way, economic losses due to collateral negative effects deriving from human activities can be progressively decreased, and the entire planet will benefit from the process. Despite the considerable efforts being carried out in the context of the OH approach, war causes tragic and devastating effects on the physical and mental health of human beings, on their lives, on pandemic and zoonotic threats, on animals, on plants and, last but not least, on the environment. War is incompatible with OH. Enormous efforts for peace are therefore urgently needed.https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/18/2736One Healthfood-borne zoonosesEU Green DealFarm to Forkfood safetyantimicrobial resistance |
| spellingShingle | Alessandra Mazzeo Patrizio Tremonte Silvia Jane Lombardi Costantino Caturano Arianna Correra Elena Sorrentino From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model Foods One Health food-borne zoonoses EU Green Deal Farm to Fork food safety antimicrobial resistance |
| title | From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model |
| title_full | From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model |
| title_fullStr | From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model |
| title_full_unstemmed | From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model |
| title_short | From the Intersection of Food-Borne Zoonoses and EU Green Policies to an In-Embryo One Health Financial Model |
| title_sort | from the intersection of food borne zoonoses and eu green policies to an in embryo one health financial model |
| topic | One Health food-borne zoonoses EU Green Deal Farm to Fork food safety antimicrobial resistance |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2304-8158/11/18/2736 |
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