Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-13-Speech-2-256"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Deliberate release of GMOs into the environment2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010213.10.2-256"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-13-Speech-2-2572
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2000-11-09--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it will only become apparent in the distant future as to whether genetic modification is a blessing to humanity or a curse. It was human beings that brought a plague of rabbits to America and Australian muskrats that undermine the Dutch dykes. Subsequently, human beings saddled the world with chemical waste dumps and dumping sites for radioactive waste. Recently, we have let an AIDS epidemic run riot and we have allowed mad cow disease to develop. This has all come about owing to a combination of ignorance, impatience, laziness and pursuit of profit. If we had known then what we know now, I am sure we would have done things differently. If, before long, people start getting ill from consuming new products, existing plants and animals are supplanted by other species, and existing living beings are no longer resistant to new diseases, then we will know that we have made another big mistake. So we have every reason to restrict our activities to scientific research for the time being, and to isolate all new products that emerge from this. Unfortunately, we are now giving way to the pressure exerted by industry to permit commercial applications. This is undoubtedly highly lucrative for these companies, but it will cost society as a whole enormously in the longer term. It seems that the choice with regard to genetic modification is now between maintaining the old regulation, which is poor, but which does at least include a moratorium, and a new regulation, which is somewhat better but will abolish the moratorium. I have noted that the actual choice cannot be made on the basis of this document."@en1

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