Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-02-Speech-3-179"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-05-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010502.13.3-179"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-05-02-Speech-3-1802
lpv:speaker	lp:Marit Paulsen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Folkpartiet liberalerna (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs Roth-Behrendt has done an extremely good job over a long period when it comes to combating BSE, or TSE. We have now finally reached the point at which we have perhaps obtained some control over, and put an end to, the chains of infection which we know exist in this connection. I should like to take this opportunity to ask us to think in the longer term. Unfortunately, human beings still do not know why, where and when the prion becomes ‘mad’ or when this prion-caused disease occurs and for what reason. The situation requires a certain humility on our part. Right now, another discussion concerning animal by-products is being conducted, and it now looks as though a new round of the debate will be getting under way. We tried to make cows, which are vegetarian, into omnivores, and that gave us BSE. Right now, we are at a point at which I suspect that, out of fear, panic or for other reasons – political populism, perhaps – we shall try to make the pig into a vegetarian. It would also be a good idea if we were to give a little consideration to our own history. Our forefathers knew perfectly well that animals that had died of natural causes should not be eaten. It is in modern times that we have left nature so far behind that we have begun to embark upon such experiments. I should like us calmly and quietly to show a bit of humility in the face of the food disasters which have hit us."@en1

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