Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-07-09-Speech-1-121"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-07-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:MON 863 - Risk Management (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070709.17.1-121"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-07-09-Speech-1-1222
lpv:speaker	lp:Kathy Sinnott2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, scientists in France recently discovered extensive organ damage in the liver and kidney in animals raised on Monsanto 863. Three years before this, German studies were brought to the attention of EFSA by the German authorities that showed kidney damage in rats fed Monsanto 863. Yet, despite this, EFSA has reaffirmed their risk assessment on this and said that it is safe for European farm animals. Where are EFSA’s studies? Why are they just looking at the industry’s tests and just going back over them? How difficult can it be for them to try to redo the French and German studies? The biotech industry in Europe alleges that GM farming is inevitable. My fear is that this will just be a self-fulfilling prophesy. Europe is capable of supplying its farmers with GM-free grain, but if we accept the inevitability, if we accept safety studies that are not really studies at all, then farmers will be forced into feeding their animals GM because otherwise there will be no other grain. I would remind EFSA that many products, after years of so-called ‘safety’, have been taken off the market. To give you one example, the polio vaccine we use today is the fourth polio vaccine, because the other three, after having been given to people for many years, were finally withdrawn because of mounting evidence of damage. We are supposed to respect the precautionary principle in Europe, especially when we are talking about putting genetically-modified organisms into the environment, considering that, with GM, any resulting adverse effects may be irreversible."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; IND/DEM (2004-07-20--2008-05-08)3,3 substitute; AFCO (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; DROI (2007-02-13--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; AFET (2007-02-14--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2007-05-23--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3,3 member; ENVI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3 substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3,3 unknown; Independent (2005-02-16--2009-07-13)3,3 vice-chair; PETI (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3,3 member; EMPL (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3,3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Kathy Sinnott,"1 "on behalf of the IND/DEM Group"1

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