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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I do not agree with what has been said about food prices rocketing. It seems absurd to me that anyone is thinking of feeding developing countries by making them grow plants for fuel rather than food. I cannot support the pro-GMO lobby at all, because biofuels are one thing and foods are another, and what especially concerns me is the monopoly outside Europe on patents and seeds that makes many highly dependent on the United States and European farmers.
In my opinion, the rise in prices is not due either to climate change or to fuel being expensive, which – though it has an impact – does not do so to the extent that people are saying; it should be pointed out among other things that we are also enjoying a good euro/dollar exchange rate. Instead I am convinced that it is caused by speculation by the distribution sector, especially the major retailers, otherwise how do you explain that in Italy, prices for agricultural produce have changed little in the last seven years and certainly not to the extent by which consumer prices have increased?
In Italy, either the multinational major retailers or the cooperatives are using a cartel strategy utterly speculatively to the detriment of consumers. Purchasing power will only recover, I believe, with a moratorium on consumer prices. I agree: less market, less competition and less globalisation to help productivity and consumption. I will therefore be voting against the Council and Commission statement."@en1
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