At the livestock summit in Cournon-d’Auvergne, near Clermont-Ferrand, a delegation of elected officials from EEVL went to meet farmers to attempt a seduction operation.
While the first ecological rural universities take place from October 6 to 8 in Drôme, EELV elected officials confronted the rural world at the livestock summit in Cournon-d’Auvergne.
Benoît Biteau makes his way through the aisles, the hay, the crushed dung on the ground. The MEP with the big mustache approaches a breeder who is watching his cow. The green MEP introduces himself. David, the farmer, pouted. He begins to smile again, but remains suspicious when we talk to him about environmentalists: “You need it but not too much, there are environmentalists and environmentalists.”
“They’re always beating us up and they’re the first to get on the plane.”
Anthony, breeder, about environmentalistsat franceinfo
The elected official, to convince, highlights certain objectives of environmentalists: “A sort of protectionism of this quality of meat, of this quality of milk; the protection of breeders against imports from New Zealand.” He adds: “We’re not enemies when we do that?”
But the seduction operation remains complicated for the Greens, to hear Patou and his friend Anthony, who build limousines: “They’re always hitting on us and they’re the first to take the plane. You Patou, shouldn’t you take the plane often? We have to know what world we want to live in.” The farmer continues: “We still want food sovereignty. We precisely need to guarantee production, but we cannot compare ‘the farm of a thousand cows’ with the agricultural world of today.”
Sandrine Rousseau in the viewfinder
Benoît Biteau would like to “deconstruct” this image which sticks to the skin of ecologists, and criticizes the media Sandrine Rousseau without naming it. “Never among environmentalists, there was talk of abolishing livestock farming. It’s not because there is a medical outing from time to time, on the barbecue, that all ecologists are on that list. In the world of agriculture, that can cost us dearly.”
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Like him, Drôme MP Marie Pochon knows the rural world well: she comes from a family of farmers and works to find the right words: “I think that individual guilt, in general, is not a good way to change things. How do we support this drop in consumption, towards less but better, which also allows better income for our farmers? asks the MP.We have a system that is completely collapsing. And our political leaders and certain representatives of the profession look elsewhere and point the finger at environmentalists. regrets Marie Pochon.
They return the ball toEstate on the lack of support to put an end to the intensive model, which represents 3% of breeding but concentrates 60% of the animals.