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For a long time the European institutions encouraged, thanks to subsidies, the kind of intensive farming and cattle rearing that suits the interests of the agro-food industry.
Intensive breeding and the massive use of animal and bone meal led to the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Even after it was clearly established that animal and bone meal was responsible for propagating this disease, the European institutions continued to conceal this evil and to hand out subsidies to promote consumption and marketing.
Faced with the scale of the disaster, the European authorities eventually and belatedly changed their approach. Under cover of financing measures to make up for the errors of the preceding period, they rushed into a policy of ‘purchase for destruction’, which it is difficult to reconcile with the European budget.
Now, after having encouraged intensive farming, they are trying to ‘boost’ extensive rearing and ‘organic farming’.
We abstained on this report, which in effect asks for a full discharge for a chaotic ‘agricultural policy’, in which the only factor that remains constant is the payment of substantial amounts in the form of subsidies that are often only of limited benefit to the small farmers and are of far greater benefit to the beef and veal industry and the capitalist firms that are prospering in the sector of animal feed and meat processing and marketing."@en1
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