Duplomb Law: In Toulouse, farmers mobilize in support of the text
Around a hundred farmers from across Occitanie spread manure, waste, and wool and threw eggs on the evening of Tuesday, July 22, at the EELV party headquarters in Toulouse to support the Duplomb law.
Coming from Tarn, Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne, Haute-Garonne, Ariège and Hérault, at the call of the Rural Coordination (CR), they intended to denounce the petition which has collected more than 1.7 million signatures demanding the repeal of this law adopted on July 8 which must in particular reintroduce by way of derogation a pesticide, acetamiprid , banned in France but authorized in Europe.
"Nothing to do, Sandrine," read a banner displayed by farmers in response to comments by Green Party MP Sandrine Rousseau, who had declared on the news website Le Média : "I don't give a damn" about farmers' profitability. The left, which had been up in arms against the law during its review, is trying to take advantage of the unprecedented citizen mobilization. "This is a fight that has only just begun," Sandrine Rousseau also warned.
. @coordinationrur dumped rubbish in front of the Ecologists' office in #Toulouse Contrary to what some farmers think, the Ecologists are their allies: ⛔opposed to the free trade agreement ✔for a well-paid job, ✔for the defense of health
⛔against #Duplomb Law pic.twitter.com/uExKW700er
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In front of the headquarters of the Green Party in Toulouse, "we have come to denounce the manipulation that is taking place with this petition against the Duplomb law. (…) If we stop this product (…) all our sugar and hazelnuts will be imported from abroad," reacted Pierre-Guillaume Mercadal, spokesperson for the Rural Coordination of Tarn-et-Garonne, on Tuesday evening.
For this woolly pig farmer, the Duplomb project is "a positive sign in the sense that we are making a law for farmers" but "it's a drop in the ocean, we need much more."
Acetamiprid, toxic to biodiversity and potentially to human health, is being demanded by beet and hazelnut producers, who believe they have no alternative to combat the pests and are facing unfair competition from foreign producers.
"The Duplomb law is not the best in the world, but it was the one that listened to what we had more or less said," declared Dominique Raud, vice-president of the Rural Coordination of Haute-Garonne and breeder of goats used for cheese processing.
"Popular opinion is about people who live in the city, we live in the countryside," she added, referring to the unprecedented petition calling for the repeal of the Duplomb law. "We are the first environmentalists (...) We see it with climate change, we are experiencing it," she said.
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