Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-17-Speech-2-436"
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"Thank you, Mr President. The job of the EFSA is to determine whether something is dangerous. The job of the Commission and Parliament is to determine whether something is in conformity with public policy principles such as good animal husbandry, not to mislead consumers, and to maintain a high-quality environment in accordance with the precautionary principle. Hence this proposal is unethical and inappropriate and is an undesirable method of treating chicken. Besides, the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health has come out almost unanimously against the method. I will add a further dimension: fraudsters have long applied chlorination to chicken in order to make it look pinker and fresher. Are we to favour fraudsters over farmers who have invested millions, not least in my own country, in order to improve the situation?
A few labelling rules will not work, especially in places such as restaurants.
Turn this into a victory now, withdraw the proposal and go forward on the basis of
in Parliament and
in the Council and say to the United States: no, we do not accept your methods."@en1
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