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"Mr President, the European Union must raise concerns about the unhealthy practices that have developed alongside the industrialisation and mass transportation of livestock in parts of Asia. Animal disease now travels far and fast in types of farming and food distribution. That makes it very difficult to control.
In the age of global trade, retailers and manufacturers source their raw materials where they are cheapest, and the European poultry industry has struggled to compete with prices from south-east Asia and Brazil, where labour costs are very much lower. The UK alone imported 36 649 tonnes of poultry meat from Thailand in the first ten months of last year, a 50% increase on the previous year. But in the light of this flu virus we must maintain the strictest food safety standards here in the European Union, ensuring that all imports meet those very same high standards. Modern food systems mean that animal diseases travel far and travel quickly. The outbreak of avian flu in the Netherlands last year illustrated how hard the disease can be to contain.
Does the Commission believe that all health authorities in the European Union would spot avian flu and be able to react decisively enough if it arrived on this continent?"@en1
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