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"Mr President, until recently it was considered that excess weight and obesity were problems that mainly affected the United States. It now appears that this new disease affecting industrialised societies is also present in the European Union. As the rapporteur has pointed out, children are the worst affected.
I agree with all the analyses and statements made in the report. I would, however, like to draw your attention to the fact that one needs to have access to healthy food if one is to eat healthily. Sadly, healthy food is becoming increasingly difficult to find in the Union. Unfortunately, we have now been held hostage for many years by large agri-food businesses and have been forced to consume what they supply. These large businesses impose a certain type of food production on farmers, leading to the production of ever more food that is ever cheaper and of ever poorer quality. Farmers are encouraged, and indirectly forced, to engage in intensive agriculture. This is detrimental to the environment and to our health.
Amongst other issues, we are today debating obesity and excess weight. Meanwhile, scientists are highlighting an even more alarming situation. They believe that instead of going up, average life expectancy in Europe is going down rapidly. What is even worse is that we are all subsidising the farmers and, in the end, neither we nor they benefit sufficiently from the food produced. Part of the solution to the problems currently under discussion lies in a return to traditional organic farming which, incidentally, is GMO-free."@en1
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