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"Mr President, the draft Council regulation and the parliamentary report are confined to the purely administrative aspects of the problem of BSE and make no provision for any substantial procedure for identifying and combating the causes. No mention is made of the role of the multinationals which, in order to maximise their profits, ignore the consequences of their unacceptable feeding methods and are only interested in containing the inevitable shock waves and crisis on the beef and veal market.
At the same time, by proposing measures to generalise and reduce the rates of growth in livestock farming, the European Union is treating all Member States the same and this is intolerable. In other words, it treats production in developed livestock farming countries and in countries such as Greece, which is less self-sufficient and where production systems are less likely to have fostered the emergence of this disease, in the same way.
If the European Union really wanted to deal with the problem, it would treat production in countries such as Greece differently by cancelling all quotas for the expenditure incurred and covering it by reducing support for livestock production in the countries which are responsible for these health problems.
The ban on the use of meal and bonemeal should be finalised and measures taken to change the system of prices and subsidies so as to encourage the production of fodder crops to replace meat and bonemeal."@en1
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