Petition against the Duplomb law: the government is "fully available" for a parliamentary debate, assures the Minister of Agriculture

In a message published on X, Annie Genevard believes that the success of the petition "shows that the French are attentive to what they eat."

It was the turn of the Minister of Agriculture to make the promise: the government is " of course fully available" to hold a debate in Parliament after the success of the petition against the Duplomb law . This initiative, which has collected more than 1.4 million signatures, " demonstrates an attachment to health and environmental issues, which I fully share," wrote Annie Genevard on Monday, July 21, on the social network X. " It also shows that the French are attentive to what they eat, which I am delighted about as Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty."

Nevertheless, the Minister of Agriculture continues to defend the Duplomb law, which notably reintroduces acetamiprid , an insecticide from the neonicotinoid family. "The parliamentarians adopted a strictly regulated version, based on the opinion of the European Health Reference Agency, precisely to control its scope," she emphasizes. " This bill, a parliamentary initiative, aims to respond to an emergency situation that certain sectors are experiencing and to prevent them from disappearing in the future. A French sector that disappears is a sector that does not reappear," she concludes.