“I understand that when you are a farmer, that you cannot make a decent living from your work, that makes people angry,” said Marylise Léon on Monday on franceinfo.
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The mobilization of farmers continues throughout France on Monday January 22, a few hours before a meeting at the end of the day between the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal and representatives of the FNSEA and Young Farmers in Matignon. They denounce guarantees of a fair price, and denounce international competition and the multiplication of environmental standards. “I am not convinced that environmental standards are the cause of all their misfortunes”explains the general secretary of the CFDT Marylise Léon, while ensuring “understand the distress” farmers.
“I understand that when you are a farmer, that you cannot make a decent living from your work, that makes people angry”, assures Marylise Léon. She says she also understands “their dismay in the face of a certain number of elements that they must face”. However, she continues, “I am also not convinced that standards, particularly environmental ones, are the cause of all their misfortunes.”
Staying “on course with this ecological transition”
These standards make “part of the problems” which they face, but for the general secretary of the CFDT, “caution”, because removing these obstacles would not make it possible to respond “completely meets all their needs”. Moreover, “we must not lose focus, the need we have to move towards a just ecological transition. So, what we must succeed is the transformation of the agri-food model, of agriculture towards better respect for the environment.
While Gabriel Attal receives the two main farmers’ unions at 6 p.m., Marylise Léon calls on the Prime Minister to “be attentive” while maintaining “the milestone of this ecological transition”. The change in the agricultural model is a real “challenge” for the future according to her: “If there is no support, it will be one or the other, that is to say an ecological transition to the detriment of the social or the maintenance of the existing and we will never do this transformation.”
