Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Beef production in Europe is under serious economic pressure. As Deputy Martin Kenny has said, climate change will pose its own challenges but producers in Europe are able to provide food sustainably. Farmers cannot understand how the Commission can allow a Mercosur deal that will allow 80,000 to 90,000 tonnes of beef into Europe to go through, displacing food sustainably produced in Europe. We hear reports of rainforests being cut down continuously in South America to produce this beef. European producers cannot understand how the Commission can have one policy to deal with climate change while another allows these imports from South America.

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