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"Mr President, I stand here tonight conscious that in Cancún the Commissioner and others will have to battle to protect very poor people.
I would like you, Mr President, to count to ten. When you end that count, 80 people in the world will have died of starvation. Every second, eight people die of malnutrition. What is it that these people can do to make all of us better off? The only thing they know they can do is to grow more food. But the one thing we prevent them from doing is to grow food that they can export to us.
Because we want to protect our cows and our farmers and our industry, we give more money to a cow each day than 600 million people have to live on. We give two dollars a day to a cow. The poorest people in this world have to live on one dollar.
In Cancún we can make a difference. When I came to this Parliament from the British House of Commons, I came with great expectations. I came with the expectations that the European Union meant what it said. I came with the expectation that the Doha Round was a development round. I came with the expectation that the Commissioner sitting there would have a spine to go and fight, that Mr Lamy, who had introduced 'Everything But Arms', would go and fight. Well, I want to see them fight. Because if they do not fight, what are their lives about? What are our lives about? What is all this about when we know that now, for the first time in our history, we can make a direct link between poverty and the propagation of terrorism?
We must understand that link and we must start doing something about it. I come from a very privileged background in Sri Lanka, and I know people here come from very privileged backgrounds around the world. We must understand that link and have the spine and the courage to fight to allow people – who can do things such as grow and market their food and create rural agriculture in the developing world – to export produce. We should stop protecting our cows and our farmers in Europe inefficiently, and stop destroying our own customer base. Unless we are able to do that, we are going to have to pick up a huge bill."@en1
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