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The growing number of cases in Britain of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the current situation in France have placed the ‘mad cow’ or BSE issue even more firmly on the agenda. This affair has been characterised throughout by a lack of transparency and an extremely serious covering up of information at the highest level in some Member States of the European Union.
What is at risk here is food safety, from the ‘mad cow’ issue, from dioxins and even from GMOs. All of this makes it clear that when the quest for maximum profit is the sole consideration, human and animal health are threatened. The lack of consumer confidence is spreading and the agricultural markets are battening down the hatches.
Unless there is a change in the common agricultural policy, the food safety problem will only get worse. The CAP has always promoted intensive production, the gradual ‘stepping up’ of production and land concentration, which has basically served the interests of the agro-food industry and the big transnational food companies.
The basic problem will not be solved simply by having a European food authority and belated one-off legislative measures, however positive they may be, such as the ban on meat meal in all animal feedingstuffs. It is crucial that we go further and promote a change in the common agricultural policy."@en1
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