Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-01-15-Speech-4-024"

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dcterms:Date	"2009-01-15"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20090115.2.4-024"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Robert Evans2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to congratulate Mr Parish on bringing this forward. Despite our political differences, and notwithstanding his very obvious deficiencies as a human being, I think he is actually very sound on this and I support him. We need this regulation to be a success and we need it to be universally in force, but I have a number of reservations and I disagree with some colleagues who spoke this morning. Mr Stevenson said that longer journeys were unavoidable – I say: not so. Mrs Jensen spoke of 24-hours transport – not necessarily. Mr Allister, the agricultural industry has to ask questions itself. As a civilised society, we need to look at the whole question, the whole purpose, the whole idea of transporting animals long distances and then killing them. If I were a meat eater, I would be asking how can the suffering en route which we know about, the dehydration, the stress and – to our Irish colleagues North and South – the sea journeys, possibly improve the quality of the product at the end? To my mind, it makes no economic sense. It does not make humanitarian sense. This is why I favour a complete ban on the transport of animals, which, I believe, would support rural economies. It would encourage local producers, yes, small- and medium-sized enterprises as someone spoke of, and it would enable consumption of food as near the point of production as possible. In the absence of that, and I know it is not going to happen in the near future, I think we need proper realistic enforcement of what we have at the moment, the regulation, and I urge the Commission to use all the agencies across Europe – police forces on motorways if necessary – to stop and check lorries to see whether they are carrying out the full requirements of this legislation."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-05-10--2009-02-04)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (2007-05-02--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Labour Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2007-05-02--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2005-01-26--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Afghanistan (2007-11-14--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Robert Evans (PSE )."1
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