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"Mr President, there is nothing to dislike in this proposal and I commend our rapporteur for coming up with it, especially with an election in the offing. I think any politician in this room looking to June next year will be in favour of seeing Europe’s children eating better and eating European local fruit. It is good news for Europe’s farmers as well because this is creating a local market. It is good news for the health budget of the future and more importantly it is good news for the children themselves.
If we start children eating healthy at a young age, they will keep up the habit. Finland has demonstrated and proven that aggressive intervention at an early age does make a difference, and that is very much to be welcomed. If we speculate a little on the agriculture budget now, we will accumulate on the health budget of the future. Coming from Scotland I am ashamed to say that we have a particular interest in this, in that 21% – one in five – of our primary school children are overweight. That is utterly unsustainable. We cannot look towards a future of increasing obesity, so this is part of the solution to that and I am delighted to commend it to the House. It is good news all round."@en1
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