Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-05-Speech-2-046"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Public health and food safety2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991005.3.2-046"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-05-Speech-2-0472
lpv:speaker	lp:Pilar Ayuso2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Popular (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr Prodi, I am grateful for the information which you gave Parliament this morning, but I would like to stress the fact that these accidents – those of mad cow disease and dioxin – are not really accidents. I believe them to be the consequences of the policies that have been pursued. We have a Green Paper on this issue, we will have a White Paper and 800 directives, but the root of this matter, the reality, is that it is a consequence of the economic policies and decisions which have been taken in Europe, and of globalisation. In agricultural production, quantity has taken precedence over quality and this has caused the balance to be upset. We have abandoned European traditions, we have ended up with extensive and semi-extensive livestock farming and, as Ferdinando Riccardi pointed out a few days ago, Plutarch reminded us in his treatise on animals of some cows who had gone mad as a result of becoming carnivores. We have turned our ovine and bovine animals, which are ruminant herbivores, into carnivores, like those animals in Plutarch. And not only have we turned them into carnivores, we have tied them up, immobilised them, treated them with unnecessary antibiotics, castrated them, inseminated them, kept them in conditions which are inhumane – and the expression is quite appropriate – for animals. We have changed to an earthless form of agriculture. We have abandoned European traditions. This is the real cause of the problems we are experiencing. And apart from this, whatever happened to animal welfare? We talk of animal welfare, but this welfare must begin with food. President Prodi, do you and your Commission really intend to tackle the problem at its source or will you carry on acting as a trouble-shooter and apply stopgap solutions every time a problem arises? I would ask for more investigation, more control and more accountability for those countries which do not comply with the regulations."@en1

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