Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-12-04-Speech-3-162"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-12-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Protection of animals used for experiments2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021204.10.3-162"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-12-04-Speech-3-1632
lpv:speaker	lp:Sebastiano (Nello) Musumeci2
lpv:spokenAs	member; UEN (1999-07-22--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Alleanza nazionale (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; PECH (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, I will start by saying that I do not belong to the cross-party group of animal rights extremists either by nature or by inclination, I have never been a vegetarian and I am not one of those people who likes to sleep with their dog on their bed. I firmly believe that we are not bound to love animals but that we do have a duty to respect them. This, too, is a way of measuring the degree of civilisation of a people. The almost complete lack of attention on the part of many of the Member States to the need for proper implementation of Directive 86/609 on animals used for experimental purposes, the appalling shortcomings of the directive itself and the delay in realising the need for it to be updated are confirmation of at least two things: firstly, that animal welfare is a taboo subject in this wealthy, opulent Europe, and secondly, that international economic lobbies are still succeeding in preventing free, political debate on certain subjects. Admitting, as I do, that scientific progress includes animal experimentation does not mean allowing the Member States to flout and repeatedly violate standards and to subject laboratory animals to unnecessary suffering. Therefore, the European Commission must speed up its reform process in this area and step up its control and monitoring of non-compliant States, and Parliament, without allowing there to be tension between its head and its heart, must summon up the courage, with the resolution before us today, to take up arms and wage ideological war against the egoism and evil ways of mankind and, without jeopardising scientific research, confirm our unquestionable duty to respect defenceless animals."@en1

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