Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-02-01-Speech-4-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Progress of EU and Member State measures to combat BSE2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010201.3.4-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-02-01-Speech-4-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Neil Parish2
lpv:spoken text	"Commissioner Byrne, I am not noted usually for complimenting you on your good performance but on this occasion I wish to be fair. It is totally wrong for Member States now to blame the Commission when you were pointing out as long as a couple of years ago the problems that were going to occur. What Member States have done by trying to make out which beef is the safest in Europe, is to destroy European beef. There is no doubt about that. We need to take action now across Europe. I am a farmer who farmed through the BSE crisis in the UK. I saw the value of my cattle drop to virtually nothing. It is very painful for the farming industry to see this happen and it is happening now throughout the whole of Europe, so action needs to be taken. I do not think we want to re-invent the wheel so we should look to the measures that have been taken in Britain and have restored consumer confidence. I would urge, and I know Commissioner Byrne agrees with this, to have one policy throughout Europe. If we do not, the European press will take each Member State in turn, they will look at the safety measures that are in those states and they will compare and then people’s confidence in beef in general will collapse. There is no doubt that the older cattle, however painful it is, have to be taken out of the food chain. They must be destroyed. Not only is there incineration but there is now a sodium hydrolysis method of dissolving cattle. I am sure you are looking at that, because that could be a better and possibly a cheaper method of disposing of these cattle. We need also to look at imports of cattle from outside the European Union, because not only do we need to get our act together, I believe there is a lot of complacency about this in the rest of the world. At the end of the day, we must get beef consumption up, we must convince the consumer that it is safe and let them eat European beef."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-08--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(Applause from the right)"1 "Parish (PPE-DE )."1

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