European Parliament
A6-0161/2006
Urszula Krupa,
on behalf of the IND/DEM Group
(PL)
Madam President, profit-driven, unnatural methods of animal husbandry, together with the feeding of livestock with bone meal and mechanised meat separation have led to the recent increase in the risk of BSE spreading. Meat which still contains elements of periosteum, fragments of spinal cord tissue and other nerve tissue is more likely to be infected with prions dangerous to humans and animals.
The positive aspects of the current solutions include prevention, the implementation of a variety of control tests and a return to using traditional feed. However, fishmeal fed to livestock still poses a threat. If the afore-mentioned practices had not spread to Poland as well, all farm animals would eat natural feed and meat would be processed using traditional methods. Fortunately, our agricultural sector is still organic, and there are no demands to introduce innovations for economic reasons.
We are critical of excessively expanding the phytosanitary administration, implementing an unnecessary number of programmes, and also of unnatural compromises, driven by the financial lobby groups, all of which increase costs and increase the threat of diseases, not just spongiform encephalopathy.

