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"Mr President, may I add my congratulations to the rapporteur for a very welcome report. Swine fever, like foot-and-mouth, does re-emerge from time to time in different Member States throughout the European Union. Unfortunately, the only way of controlling it, at the moment, is by large-scale slaughter of animals, many of which are free from disease. To date, we have not been able, as has already been said, to develop a marker vaccine capable of controlling the disease.
I find it very hard in this modern day and age to understand why we have not made greater progress. You need only look at everything we have at our disposal, and at the costs incurred in this senseless slaughter of thousands of innocent animals. We heard this week that in the United Kingdom for every one proven case of foot-and-mouth, animals have been slaughtered on five or six farms around that case. The cost, not only to the Exchequer and to the European Union, but the real cost of the loss of these animals, is enormous.
The agriculture industry certainly does not need anymore bad publicity and I support Mr Stevenson's position on the amendments put forward by Mr Mulder. It is all very well to speak of stringent controls, but you cannot guard against human failure. You cannot prevent a failure by a single individual and it only takes one person not to follow those controls and the feeding of swill creates a real problem as seems to have been the case in the United Kingdom with foot-and-mouth.
I understand that it will be very difficult and take time to secure agreement between all the parties involved – our trade partners and everyone else. But we must begin and we must put down a marker now. We must never again go through what we have just witnessed, be it with swine fever or with foot-and-mouth. There has to be a better way. The people of the European Union are demanding this. Many farmers demand that there has to be a better method of control. It is incumbent upon us to find a better way rather than witness the senseless slaughter we have recently seen.
No one can convince me that we have got it right at present. I do not believe we have. We have made mistakes and we should recognise those mistakes and put those mistakes right sooner, rather than later."@en1
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