Organisierte Schlamperei

Die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, historisch die eine Seite des Kompromisses zwischen französischen und deutschen Interessen, ist seit langem umstritten. Nun wird sie noch zu einem Synonym für eine potentiell tödliche Schlamperei. Die täglichen Meldungen über die Rinderseuche BSE und Importverbote, über die Verletzung von Hygiene- und Sicherheitsvorschriften lesen sich mittlerweile wie Frontberichte. Es sind Berichte, die einem den Appetit vergehen lassen, die die Verbraucher verunsichern und, nach und nach, den Blick auf ein fast mafioses System freilegen. Dieses System schert sich wenig um Vorsorge und Gesundheit, dafür um so mehr um die Interessen einer transnational operierenden Agroindustrie, die mit den europäischen Institutionen Katz und Maus spielt und sich ihrer bedient. Natürlich trägt Brüssel nicht allein die Verantwortung für die Verbreitung der Rinderseuche. Wer sich an die geradezu kriminell anmutenden und mittlerweile amtlich bestätigten Praktiken früherer britischer Regierungen erinnert, im Interesse des eigenen Rindfleischexports das BSE-Risiko zu bagatellisieren und die Gefahr der Ansteckung mit der Creutzfeldt-Jakob-Krankheit zu bestreiten, der wird die organisierte Kumpanei insbesondere in den EU-Ländern richtig orten. In britischen Schlachthöfen herrschten vor wenigen Jahren katastrophale Zustände, und die Politik hatte daran wenig auszusetzen. Sie reagierte erst, als die Verbraucher in Panik gerieten und der Fleischmarkt überall zusammenbrach. Diese Schlampereien, die Schiebereien und staatlich gedeckten "Nachlässigkeiten" bei der Einhaltung der entsprechenden Vorschriften in europäischen Ländern müssen ein Ende haben. Und ein Ende muß auch die Verfütterung von aus Kadavern gewonnenem Tiermehl haben, weil es am Anfang der Übertragungskette der Rinderseuche steht. Es wird Zeit, daß Brüssel und die Behörden in den Mitgliedsländern der EU ihre Verantwortung für die Verbraucher ernst nehmen und es nicht bei Halbherzigkeiten belassen, wenn sie den strengen Atem der Lobbyisten spüren. Schon jetzt braucht sich niemand darüber zu wundern, daß Importverbote, Kontrollen und nationale Boykottaufrufe die "gemeinsame" Agrarpolitik durchlöchern. Sie beginnt sich gegen ihre Profiteure selber zu wenden.

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Automatic translation with Personal Translator PT 2000 by linguatec Sprachtechnologien (www.linguatec.de)

Sloppiness organized

The common agricultural policy of the European community, historical is controversial the a side of the compromise between French and German interests, for a long time. She gets synonymous to one for a potentially fatal sloppiness now. The daily reports about the Mad Cow Disease BSE and import bans read himself, about the injury of hygiene and safety regulations like reports from the front in the meantime. It reports, this one are let the appetite pass, for one which makes the consumers uncertain and, after and after, almost expose the look on one mafioses system. This system cares little about precautions and health for this around so more Agroindustrie operating train oil nationally around the interests of one which plays with the European institutions Katz and mouse and makes use of her. Of course brussels doesn't take the responsibility for the distribution of the Mad Cow Disease alone. In the interest of the own beef export to deny the infection the BSE risk to minimize and the danger with the Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness this one will whom for himself locate the organized chumminess particularly correctly in the EU countries, reminded of the methods of earlier British governments appearing criminal virtually and confirmed in the meantime officially. In British slaughter-houses there were disastrous conditions few years ago and the politics had to stop little to this. She reacted first when the consumers turned out in panic and the meat market caved in everywhere. These sloppinesses, the Schiebereien and by the state muted "carelessnesses" at the retention of the corresponding regulations in European countries must have an end. And an end also must have the Verfütterung of animal flour won from carcasses because it is at the beginning of the assignment chain of the Mad Cow Disease. Time becomes that brussels and the authorities take her responsibility for the consumers seriously and don't leave it at half-heartednesses in the member countries of the EU, if they feel the strict breath of the lobbyists. Nobody needs to be surprised that import bans, controls and national boycott calls make holes in the "common" agricultural policy already now. She starts to oppose her professional expensive.

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Shady Dealings

The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, historically one aspect of a compromise between French and German interests, has long been controversial. Now, it is also becoming a synonym for potentially lethal slipshod dealings. Meanwhile, the daily reports about the BSE cattle epidemic and import bans, about breaches of hygiene and safety regulations, read like dispatches from the front. They spoil your appetite, make consumers feel insecure and, little by little, uncover an almost Mafia-like system. That system cares little about precautions and health, but all the more about the interests of a transnational farming industry that plays cat and mouse with European institutions and takes advantage of them. Of course, Brussels does not bear sole responsibility for the spread of BSE. Anyone who recalls the almost criminal practices of former British governments -- now officially confirmed -- such as trivializing the risk of BSE and denying the human risk, and doing so in the interest of its own beef exports, will have no difficulty in identifying the organized back-scratching that goes on, especially in EU countries. Conditions in British slaughterhouses a few years ago were disastrous; yet politicians found little fault with them. They reacted only when consumers started to panic and meat markets everywhere collapsed. An end must be put to this slipshod approach, to shady deals and officially covered-up "negligence" in complying with the regulations in force in European countries. And there must be a stop to the feeding of animals with meal made from animal remains because that is the beginning of the BSE chain. It is time for Brussels and for authorities in the EU member-states to take their responsibility toward consumers seriously and not to be satisfied with half-hearted measures as soon as lobbyists start breathing down their necks. Even now, no one need be surprised that the "Common" Agricultural Policy is being riddled with import bans, controls and calls for national boycotts. It is starting to turn on those who profit from it.

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