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"Commissioner, the speech that you have just made has left me somewhat confused, and I shall tell you why: you began by saying that a review of livestock farming is needed. You then present yourself to this Parliament as the master of an agriculture that is focused on intensive production and exports. In other words, you are saying ‘I cannot vaccinate livestock because if I did, I would harm exports’. This illogical approach is intolerable. You have to make a choice, Commissioner: either you are genuinely interested in protecting producers, in which case you have to opt for vaccination in areas with the highest numbers of affected animals, or you want to protect the export industry, in which case you would be sacrificing producers to exports. What you cannot do is address both issues in the same way. I would ask you, whose side are you actually on? Are you on the side of the export industry or of saving livestock farmers?
My second question to you concerns another incongruity: the Netherlands has discovered a dozen cases, and the United Kingdom 900. The United Kingdom has slaughtered hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of animals and the Netherlands has slaughtered a few thousand. The latter is using vaccination but with regard to the UK, on which everyone is focussing, and which has major problems, you come here, Commissioner, and sit on the fence. This is unacceptable. You must tell us what you think about vaccination. I should also like to ask you why animals are being slaughtered once they have been vaccinated. You must explain to us what the technical or scientific basis is for having animals slaughtered when they have already been vaccinated. I have one final question: your Veterinary Committee knows the type of vaccination needed and can guarantee its safety. Why then are you always confusing the situation and leading people to believe that from a technical and scientific point of view, we cannot control this disaster through vaccination?"@en1
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