– (DE) Mr President, if a stop is to be put to meat scandals and the back-door introduction of genetic engineering, then c
onsumers need to be told the blunt facts, with nothing left out, but it cannot be acceptable that the stringent food regulations w
e impose on our own farmers and producers should be regularly circumvented by imports from third countries, a state of affairs that I regard as unfair to our farmers, counterproductive in terms of consumer protection and therefore needing to be done away with at once. It is for that reas
...[+++]on that I voted against the Thyssen report.- (DE) Monsieur le Président, si l’on veut mettre un terme aux scandales impliquant la viande et à l’introduction en catimini des aliments génétiquement modifiés, il faut exposer aux consommateurs les faits crus, sans rien omettre. Il est cependant inacceptable que les strictes réglementations alimentaires que nous imposons à nos propres agriculteurs et producteurs soient régulièrement contournées par des importations en provenance de pays tiers.