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"Mr President, it is pleasant to renew acquaintance in this forum with Mr Pearson, who served with effect for some time in Northern Ireland, as did Commissioner Mandelson.
One of the primary duties of the EU has to be to provide a secure source of food for its people. In the rush to secure a WTO deal, I trust that this basic obligation is not being either jeopardised or compromised. Last summer, in the United Kingdom at least, we saw the corrosive effect of cheap South American beef imports on our indigenous beef industry with plummeting prices threatening the survival of many producers. That was with the tariffs as they are at present. If tariffs are further slashed, as has been proposed, then local production will fall, national herds will disappear, and we will become predominantly dependent on South America for our supply of red meat.
What then if pandemic disease outbreaks, already ravishing Brazil in terms of foot-and-mouth, spread throughout that continent? How then will we feed the people of Europe? They will not thank us then for a headline-grabbing, ego-satisfying deal at the WTO if we have cut off from ourselves a secure supply of reliable food that is home-produced."@en1
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