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"en.20110118.14.2-318-000"2
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"Yes, the agricultural sector is a strategic sector and food security is an imperative. It has taken Europe decades to realise this. However, the title of the report is misleading. At no point does it denounce the devastating consequences of global free trade and market logic.
We will continue to eat strawberries in winter, whether they come from the southern hemisphere or energy and water guzzling greenhouses. We will continue to promote the importation of African beans at the expense of local food crops and in competition with our own producers.
We will continue to call for the regulation of the markets for agricultural products and their derived products, even though this latter notion is absurd and we should be promoting quality agriculture and short food circuits, while mercilessly pursuing the abuses of intermediaries and large retailers.
We will stand powerlessly by as foreign countries that have wasted their own potential take control of the arable land of the most vulnerable countries, leaving us increasingly worried, but failing to act in the face of what is potentially an explosive situation.
You have made progress, but there is still some way to go. By refusing to get to grips with the very system that has created these problems for us, you are bound to fail."@en1
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