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Where farming is concerned, 2001 was marked by the speed and the scale of the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the EU, in particular in the United Kingdom. We recall the burning pyres and the mass slaughter of animals which, apart from the environmental, economic and public health consequences, caused enormous social disruption in the countries affected. Two things are clear: health policy cannot be determined by commercial issues and a strategy for combating the disease that provides only for preventive culling, ignoring new scientific developments, is unacceptable from the ethical point of view.
This outbreak, in conjunction with the other food and health crises that have beset the EU (BSE, dioxins, sewage slurry, nitrofurans, etc), demonstrates the bankruptcy of the current model of agricultural development and the consequences of a CAP based on exports, on bringing prices down and on opening up the markets. The transport of live animals, the closure of local abattoirs, the lack of border controls and the elimination of production at local level are only some of the problems.
Hence our broad support, reinforcing our budgetary proposal, which is intended to establish an agricultural disaster fund, acknowledged in part by the rapporteur when he suggests that a European animal health fund should be created."@en1
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