Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-170"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in my view, it would be particularly limiting to think that the two reports before us today only pose food safety problems. The real challenges involved in genetic modifications are ethical and environmental. Ethical, since the manipulation of chromosomal information explores limits other than those that are technically possible; environmental, because, by introducing foreign genes into cultivated plants, we are deliberately running the risk of spreading undesirable genes amongst wild plant life.
I am fully aware that genetic engineering is opening up new possibilities for improving cultivated plants compared to those offered by traditional plant selection methods. Research must, of course, continue but the question as to how far we can go in playing the sorcerer’s apprentice with the very core of a living being must, at some point, be raised. We must note that, so far, the benefits of GMOs have been much more tangible for American seed firms than for farmers or consumers.
Consumers, farmers and citizens feel extremely reticent towards GMOs and legislators must understand this. With regard to industry, legislators must set limits that the industry must respect and ensure that these limits are imposed just as strictly to products imported from third countries as to food produced in the European Union. With regard to consumers, legislators must demand labelling of doses that can be efficiently measured as accurately as possible, in accordance with scientific knowledge."@en1
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