The environmental member expressed his anger after the adoption of the Duplo law and, questioned about the challenge of the remuneration of the farmers, said that “it was not the subject”. An outing that sparked controversy on the far right.
“I have nothing to fart from their profitability and then I think that is not the subject.” Extremely right elected officials have denounced, on social networks, remarks made by environmental deputy Sandrine Rousseau on farmers, while it was questioned in particular on the so -called Duplo agricultural law and its disputed measure of reintroduction under the conditions of a pesticide.
The sequence is extracted from an interview granted by the environmental member for the media online media. The elected official was expressed in particular on the “Trumpization of the Government” and the decline she observes on the laws related to the climate.
“Everything came back. While we are in a moment of rocking, we are backing up and this government will have incredible responsibility,” she said.
The law definitively adopted
The DUPLOMB-MENONVILLE law was definitively adopted by Parliament on July 8 and includes in particular the reintroduction under the conditions of a neonicotinoid pesticide, a measure strongly criticized by associations and elected officials classified on the left. Left deputies then seized the Constitutional Council on Friday, July 11, qualifying the law “serious threat”.
“Acetamipride (neonicotinoid pesticide, editor’s note) is a bit of the chlordecone of today, it will stay in the ground, it will pollute the water. It was at the request of the FNSEA only, not at all at the request of the peasant confederation, beekeepers, so we have the impression that we do not have a Minister of Agriculture, but that is the FNSEA.”
Before speaking on farmers’ performance, the deputy regretted the explosion of the number of cancers in children, pancreas and digestive cancers “which are most likely linked to this type of product”.
“No profitability, it’s dirty money”
In this context, the elected official refused the argument of “necessity” of profitability for farmers, in connection with the adoption of the Duplo law, stressing that “the profitability of agriculture by chemicals, to the detriment of soils, biodiversity, our health, it is not profitability, it is dirty money”.
After the broadcast of the interview, the deputy for the national rally, Hélène Laporte, reacted by writing on X: “This hatred of those who feed the French is incredible.”
Julien Odoul, also deputy for RN in Yonne, claimed: “Many (farmers) live with 300 euros per month. Can she do the same? The far left hates our farmers: she wants a France without campaigns or farms.”
The latter had also been the source of a controversy when in 2021 an audio recording in which he quipped on the suicide of the farmers had been revealed by the newspaper Liberation.
