Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-04-05-Speech-4-016"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-04-05"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Animal feedingstuffs/Vegetable proteins2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010405.2.4-016"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-04-05-Speech-4-0172
lpv:speaker	lp:María Rodríguez Ramos2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Partido Socialista Obrero Español (1999-07-20--2004-03-31)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2000-02-23--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; AGRI (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Canada (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-03-31)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, with regard to the communication on vegetable protein production, I join in what has been said by my colleagues in this House. The Commission’s study is disappointing, as it is not very ambitious and is based on exclusively economic criteria. The European Union’s situation with regard to its deficit of vegetable proteins, due to the Blair House agreements, in which we agreed to a reduction in our vegetable protein production while in the mean time we were feeding our livestock on meat meal from dead animals, required that the Commission take a more ambitious and broader approach to this study. It does not take into account, as has already been said, the strategic significance for European livestock breeding of being dependent on imports from third countries for the supply of vegetable proteins, and of the fact that those imports consist almost exclusively of genetically modified food. Nor does it take into account what it would mean to increase these crops that are rich in vegetable proteins in order to re-establish the balance and capacity to supply of the whole of the European Union, which would undoubtedly be very beneficial for achieving more extensive and better quality livestock. In short, the study does not take into account any of the elements on which our agricultural policy should be based: food quality, protection and development of the environment and sustainable development, because neither is there any element in the study that tells us what an increase in these crops would mean in terms of creating another economic activity in agriculture, and in terms of the farmers themselves using them and processing them into food for their livestock, which would also mean a considerable increase in income in the rural economy. In any event, what the Commission is telling us about it being better to continue importing and depending on third countries because it is cheaper is not correct. We have experience of the cheapest thing not being the best thing."@en1

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