Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-10-11-Speech-3-233"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-10-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:The protection and welfare of animals 2006-2010 (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20061011.19.3-233"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-10-11-Speech-3-2342
lpv:speaker	lp:Esther Herranz García2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; AGRI (2004-09-13--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partido Popular (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; FEMM (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2008-04-20)3 substitute; ENVI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mrs Jeggle, for her work. This initiative responds to a social concern, one that I believe it is crucial for us to confront, not just in the European Union, but throughout the world. Animal welfare is important, and it is important that we have a single European standard and that it be respected by all of the countries of the European Union. We have been worldwide pioneers in relation to these standards, and they must be respected, because there are few States in the world that can say that they conform to standards like those we apply in the European Union. We have recently talked, for example, about the rearing of chicken for meat and the transport of animals; and in this report by Mrs Jeggle we are not just talking about production farms, but also, for example, about exhibiting animals, about zoos, about circuses and about research and development - areas in which animals are also used. We must also talk about domestic animals that we keep as pets in our homes and that also require our attention. We must not, of course, be tolerant with people who abandon them, allow them to die of hunger or abuse them. We must apply serious and scientific criteria that ensure that the animals that we keep as pets in our daily lives in the European Union are happy. To this end, I would like to point out that we have held hearings in this Parliament in which we have heard international experts, such as Dr Gonsálvez, from Spain, who have told us that we must prevent epizootic diseases and invest in their prevention, that we must invest in complying with standards governing densities of animals in farms and that we must educate children to respect animals. We must also, of course, prevent cases such as paragraph 71, introduced as a result of the ignorance and lack of knowledge of certain members of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, who have mixed up two entirely different issues by failing to respect the art, the traditions and the culture of other people who do not think in the same way as them and who are exemplary in terms of freedom and respect for diversity. We will therefore vote against that paragraph 71, though we fully respect the views of those who do not think in the same way as us."@en1

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