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"Mr President, with all due respect to the authors of this particular question, when I read this I thought that it symbolised everything which frustrates me about the European institutions. We have a habit in this House and in these institutions of turning ourselves inside out on the minutiae of a debate, and this question is a good example of that.
We all believe that locally-produced food is good. I buy local vegetables from my local farm shop. I buy meat from my local butcher, who actually lists in his shop where the local farms are where he buys his animals for slaughter. I see no need for the European institutions to get involved in the minutiae of this debate. I think that we can do this very well for ourselves. Of course we also have some idea of locality with the PGIs, and Northern Ireland has recently had some very good results in designating some of its very good products: Comber potatoes, Lough Neagh eels and Armagh Bramley apples.
What we should not allow this debate on local produce to do is to lead us into a situation where we have food nationalism and trade barriers, and that is the most important issue."@en1
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