Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-01-13-Speech-2-263-000"
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"en.20150113.20.2-263-000"2
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"Madam President, it is a funny thing: when we talk about climate change in this Chamber, we are constantly told that the vital thing is to venerate the scientific consensus. And yet the people who make that argument most insistently and most loudly play by very different rules when it comes to this question of genetically modified food. Suddenly it is not about where the scientific consensus is, but whether it feels right.
Well you know what, it is a democracy. People are visceral as well as cerebral creatures; consumers might well have an objection that is not completely logical, but that does not make it invalid. If it just gives you the willies, if you are superstitious, then fine. It would be just as wrong to impose GM foods on an unwilling customer as to ban someone who wanted to buy it from doing so. Ideally we would have that decision made consumer by consumer, but at the very least let us make it through our national democratic mechanisms and procedures rather than imposing one set of rules on 600 million Europeans."@en1
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