Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-01-31-Speech-3-190"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-01-31"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Promoting healthy diets and physical activity (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070131.22.3-190"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-01-31-Speech-3-1912
lpv:speaker	lp:Jean-Claude Martinez2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Front national (2004-07-20--2009-03-18)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-12-14--2007-02-14)3 member; ITS (2007-01-15--2007-11-13)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, Europe has almost 100 million fat people, unlike Darfur which only has thin people. Of course, there are 800 million children in the world at risk of dying of hunger, while we, for our part, have 14 million obese children, and the number is rising. So what, then, can be done, not to stop them looking like figures painted by Fernando Botero, but to save 7% of our health costs each year? Firstly, there is the option of diets. Apart from the Biafran diet, which is too dangerous, there is the Cretan one, but that requires olive oil, fruit, vegetables and white meats and, unfortunately, the overhauled common agricultural policy is destroying our olive trees and putting our market gardeners, tree growers and poultry farmers out of work. There are also financial regimes, which are very effective. Indeed, obesity declines the further up the income ladder you go. At the top of the ladder, the rich are all thin. The poor need, therefore, to be made richer if they are also to be made thinner. To achieve this, however, we should need to reconsider the Maastricht austerity pact, which produces people excluded from society and, therefore, fat people. As for myself, my only hope is that global warming continues. In that way, European children would get plenty of exercise travelling on their little camels to schools surrounded by sand dunes. I also hope that none of these children with sunken eyes and swollen stomachs will read Mrs Ries’s report, because there are two ways of throwing up: one is to eat too much, and the other is to read a scandalous report like this."@en1

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