German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/185,
pp. 23275-23276.
Esteemed Frau President. Esteemed colleagues.
The agriculture ministers of the European Union have come to
an understanding as to a general direction of the Common Agricultural Policy.
The negotiations between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the
European Council continue.
The Greens now use the present hour in the German Bundestag
to cultivate agriculture as one of their enemy caricatures. Agriculture should
perform more consumer protection, more animal protection, more environmental
protection, more nature defense.
Niema Movassat (Linke): Yes, that
would be nice!
Kirsten Tackmann (Linke): Don’t you
want that?
It should apply less fertilizer and less pesticide as well
as use less agricultural area. And it should at the same time and in hard
competition within and outside of Europe, grow healthy, high-value food.
Esteemed colleagues of the Greens and Linke – it is heard in the heckling – agriculture
is no all-purpose animal [eierlegende Wollmilchsau] and that for once ought to
be clearly said. In your ideologically motivated crusade against conventional
agriculture, you ask for everything and concede nothing. You are thereby the
gravediggers of our farmers.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): Such nonsense!
Nevertheless, this field was also previously plowed with
zeal by the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. Although the producer
prices are too low, the Federal government with its requirements and its
bureaucracy drives the production costs to the heights.
Furthermore, the Federal government kowtows to the European
Commission in its management of excess nitrate values. The fertilizer regulation
was thus once again intensified at the cost of the our farmers. The outcomes
and consequences have not been attended to. Amidst these problems, the AfD is
in solidarity with the protests of the farmers.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): That has not profited the farmers!
Tens of thousands of farm operations have already been
destroyed by the Federal government. There must be an end to that!
The Federal government, exactly like you, has caused great
harm to agricultural operations.
You should for once scrutinize yourselves, instead of
engaging in such inappropriate heckling.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): Says he who never yet was in committee!
The farmers no longer have an understanding of the
responsibility ping-pong between the agriculture minister and the environment
minister. They also have no longer an understanding of the Federal government’s
empty promises.
That Germany, with a portion of only 2 percent of the
worldwide CO2 emissions, scarcely has an influence on the climate change – all the
same. That hundreds of thousands of livelihoods in the automobile industry and
agriculture will be destroyed – collateral damage. Since the Greta sect and the
Green elves consider to be heretics any who refer to suitability and
proportionality in regards man-made climate change. The Federal government
prefers to bend the knee and blindly pursue the idols of climate protection.
While Germany thus sacrifices its energy economy and agriculture on the the altar
of climate protection, countless coal power plants will be built in many
emerging and developing countries and agricultural acreage expanded.
Not for one second would the emerging and developing
countries actually participate in our energy and agricultural policy wrong-way
drive. How then shall the feeding of the world population actually be secured?
The European commission wants by 2030 to protect 30 percent of the land and
ocean surface, 10 percent even strongly protect. Beyond that, it wants to strictly
limit the share of fertilizer and pesticides. That means: Less agricultural
area shall be less intensively cultivated. It thereby comes to a reduction of
food production.
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): You should have participated in the agriculture debates!
Yet by 2050, the worldwide demand for food will have doubled.
Ja, esteemed colleagues, the AfD is the only delegation
which sees the elephant in the room, namely the world population’s rapid explosion.
Ulli Nissen
(SPD): With you as it is, the elephants die out!
Out of political correctness, you avoid this topic like the
devil does holy water. It is nevertheless irresponsible to work toward the
national and international reduction of food production and to undertake
nothing vis-à-vis
the rapid population development. Here, more uprightness and more honesty are
to be urgently brought to bear.
The AfD thus wants to turn the agriculture policy upside
down. Not climate protection but food security must be in the first place. An
intact and sustainable agriculture is in the interest of our country and of our
citizens. Since we also wish to be independent of food imports. Our farmers
deal better with the environment and nature
Kirsten
Tackmann (Linke): They are not your farmers!
than most farmers in other states. They have thus earned
respect and esteem. They produce our daily bread and it is healthy and
excellent. For that, the AfD says thanks.
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