Sunday, October 24, we are talking about this major investigation launched by Public Health France and the Medicines Agency. She is trying to find out how the use of phytosanitary products in the vineyards affects those who live nearby. We are therefore going to test over time with biological samples from more than three French people. This impact will also test the vegetables that these residents grow in their vegetable garden.
franceinfo: is there a rise, a rejection of agrochemicals in agriculture, including for rural people?
Jean Viard : Yes, I think we have to say yes, that is to say that we are in a huge agrarian and rural revolution. There are both. There is the fact that 16 million houses with gardens have been built in the countryside. So inevitably, there are neighborhood problems since there are a lot of people who live next to the farms. And then, on the other side, we are in a real ecological revolution to put it like that, but which is dragging the rural world. And he trains her.
This study focuses in particular on wine-growing areas and there, we say to ourselves that we are perhaps touching a French totem, wine.
The fact of modifying production techniques undoubtedly increases the working time that must be put into the hectare. Because obviously, the interest of these products is that it takes very little labor to hold a hectare.
But that does not call into question the excellence of the wine and the truth. Wine is much more sensitive to global warming.
This also raises the question of the place of the consumer …
We are in a society where food has become absolutely central. Our societies are changing their relationship to the use of the body and therefore they are changing the way we eat. And in addition, we are in a relationship of ecological revolution. So we have a new relationship with nature. We want to know what we eat, to know where it comes from and we want it to be as simple as possible.
And I would say that the plate must fit in the field. Before, we went from field to plate. Now we have to go from the plate to the field and even we have to go from the body of the one who actually eats in the field. The movement must be reversed and it is the consumer who must take control of production.