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"Rising food prices are caused by the present volatility of the agricultural markets, which are naturally unstable in any case. The main task of the agricultural policies has therefore always been, and still is, to eliminate this instability.
We should remember the biblical story of the seven fat cows and seven thin cows: thousands of years ago society was already capable of organising agricultural markets and thereby preventing fluctuations of these markets and giving Egypt the conditions for prosperity, while other societies suffered famine and wars because of the lack of food.
Over the course of its history, mankind has to a large extent developed in line with each society’s ability to accept the priority of agricultural policies. However, the current struggles we are witnessing in the WTO, focusing on military and control policies or on national commercial and economic interests, unfortunately confirm that the today’s agricultural policies have entirely different priorities.
Ensuring the stability of the agricultural markets must therefore become a priority for the WTO if any national policies, including our common agricultural policy, are to make sense. Otherwise, ladies and gentlemen, we are flogging a dead horse and will continue doing so until a global food crisis makes us adopt radical measures, which will of course be to the detriment of farmers and the public but to the benefit of speculators. Therefore, the most important thing is to have enough courage to grab the bull by its horns."@en1
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