– (DE) Mr President, if a s
top is to be put to meat scandals and the back-door introduction of genetic engineering, then consumers need to be told the blunt facts, with nothi
ng left out, but it cannot be acceptable that the stringent food regulations we 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, counterproductiv
...[+++]e in terms of consumer protection and therefore needing to be done away with at once. It is for that reason that I voted against the Thyssen report.