– (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.