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"Mr President, as early as May, I made a public statement to the effect that I feared meat from cloned animals could end up on the European market. At the time, the Commission actually made light of this. For two and a half years, and again on 7 July, this Parliament – which is here to represent European citizens – has, by an overwhelming majority, supported my demand for a ban on cloned meat. Therefore, it is not the case, as the Commissioner has suggested, that it will be easy for citizens to recognise cloned meat if it lands on their plates. The fact remains, however, that cloned meat has now entered the food chain. I did not hear the Commissioner say anything about how he intends to prevent that happening again in the future. The only thing he has said is that we will, once again, have to wait, this time until sometime in November. I am totally fed up with all this waiting.
I also have a question for you, Commissioner Dalli: surely, you will not take lying down Commissioner De Gucht’s putting it about behind the scenes that the ban on cloned animals in the food chain demanded by Parliament would lead to a trade war with the United States, Brazil and Argentina. I would rather have a trade war than a war that involves unnecessary bloodshed. Cloning is unethical and extremely cruel to animals. Cloning results in stillbirths on a large scale or in animals having to be destroyed because of deformities. While the Commission is waiting, ambiguities in legislation will lead to this practice invading the European Union, too. The Commission should come up with legislation immediately and this very day impose the moratorium on products from cloned animals and their offspring demanded by Parliament.
Finally, I would call on Commissioner De Gucht to stop playing lapdog to the United States and its biotechnology industry. For heaven’s sake, Commissioner, you have been appointed to represent the general interest of the European Union and its citizens and, as a member of the Commission, you are not required to accept the instructions of any government, institution, body or authority, and all I am doing here is citing the Treaty on the European Union. Have things really deteriorated to the point where Europe is allowing our policy to be swayed, to the detriment of our citizens, out of fear of repercussions from the World Trade Organisation? If they are, then right now, I am ashamed of the state of the European Union."@en1
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