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Events themselves, with fatal cases of serious "unprecedented" illnesses, should have made us face up to crucial questions about the health of our livestock, the quality of our food and the huge threat to consumers.
Of course, it is also vital that we set out clear legislative rules if we are to have quality standards and ensure that food is controlled. However, before taking any legislative measures, we must identify the reasons why the food chain has been downgraded and adulterated. And that means pointing the finger first and coming down hard on the merciless laws of the capitalist market, which turn herbivores into carnivores. Otherwise, we shall end up tinkering with individual technical aspects which do nothing for public health and misleading consumers in the process.
The root of all this evil is increasingly intensive production, the pressure on producers from traders and processors and huge food and feedingstuff multinationals to squeeze production costs and increase output so that they can maximise their already obscene profits.
Finally, the gradual and ever-increasing shift of power away from veterinary departments in the Member States and towards a Commission super-service, of which they then become outposts, may serve other suspect political objectives to which we are violently opposed, but it does nothing to foster effective control or consumer protection."@en1
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