She stays straight in her boots. Ecologist MP Sandrine Rousseau, who recently explained to have “nothing to fart” from the profitability of farmers, reiterated and specified her words.
Questioned this Monday morning on Franceinfo, she opposed small agricultural structures to large farms. She notably targeted Arnaud Rousseau, the boss of the FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers’ Unions).
“27 farms close per day. Today, we have been in a situation where, for 30 years, farmers’ income has decreased by 40 % while those of agro-industries have increased by almost 70 %, “she says. So “profitability, which is the leitmotif of agro-business, I say: I have nothing to fart”.
🔴 Agricultural profitability ➡️ “What Arnaud Rousseau wants is the closure of small farms”, says Sandrine Rousseau. pic.twitter.com/3vXh6REUhO
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The deputy was questioned about the Dupumb law and the success of the petition opposing it. Launched on July 10, two days after the adoption of the law which provides in particular the reintroduction on a derogatory and under conditions of acetamipride, pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids, prohibited in France but authorized in Europe, the petition collected more than a million signatures on the site of the National Assembly. For Sandrine Rousseau, “this proves that there is a difference between public opinion and the political interview with the Minister of Agriculture, the FNSEA and the Senate”.
The left requests the repeal of the Duplomb law
And the elected official to charge the agricultural union again and his boss. “Profitability is a subject of agro-businessman. This is the subject of Arnaud Rousseau, ”she adds. “Income is a subject of farmers. The two should not be confused, she develops. I say to farmers: you are victims of an agro-business system. “When you make profitability in defiance of people’s health, it’s dirty money. What Arnaud Rousseau wants is the closure of small farms and profitability, ”she says.
“So yes, for farmers’ income, yes for the protection of farmers, not for agro-business,” she adds. I largely prefer the health of French and French and the protection of farmers who respect the soil, water and their animals. »»
The left and environmentalists have thus promised to maintain pressure in the fall around the repeal of the agricultural text decried for its environmental impact. “It is a struggle that is just beginning,” warned Sandrine Rousseau. “During the next parliamentary niches (Days reserved for political groups texts), each group of the new Popular Front will have as a text the repeal of the Duplo law, “she said.
