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Anger of farmers: after the executive’s announcements, EELV deputy Julien Bayou says he regrets “that we are not talking about farmers’ income”
Anger of farmers: after the executive’s announcements, EELV deputy Julien Bayou says he regrets “that we are not talking about farmers’ income” – (franceinfo)
Julien Bayou, Europe Écologie-Les Verts (EELV) deputy from Paris, is the guest of 19/20 info, Thursday February 1st. He returns to the measures announced by the government to respond to the anger of farmers.
The executive unveiled a series of measures to respond to the farmers’ movement on Thursday, February 1, during a press conference. Guest of 19/20 info, Julien Bayou, Europe Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) deputy from Paris, says he regrets “Let us not talk about farmers’ income”. “I don’t understand that the FNSEA can to say that we are satisfied when we have not attacked the question of farmers’ income”he adds.
Farmers are “the first victims of pesticides”
Among the measures announced by the government, there is a pause in the plan Ecophytowhich aims to reduce the use of pesticides. “It is not true that it is by always having more pesticides that farmers will live better”indicates Julien Bayou, adding that farmers are “the first victims of pesticides” with “Parkinson’s disease, prostate cancer, lymphoma”. “To oppose, as I have heard, agriculture and ecology is nonsense”estimates the EELV deputy from Paris.
