Sandrine Rousseau "doesn't give a damn" about farmers' profitability: "She's outrageous"

Here we go again. After jet skis and barbecues , Sandrine Rousseau is at the center of a new summer controversy. This time, the Green Party MP insists she "doesn't give a damn" about farmers' profitability.

Asked about the Duplomb law during an interview with Le Média on July 11, Sandrine Rousseau mentioned the contested conditional reintroduction of a pesticide.

The elected official first denounced the step backwards that this bill represented: "We are going backwards and this government will have an incredible responsibility." Then questioned about the argument of the "need" for profitability for farmers, Sandrine Rousseau declared:

"I don't give a damn about their profitability and I don't think that's the point."

Sandrine Rousseau also considered that "the profitability of agriculture through chemical products, to the detriment of soils, biodiversity, and our health, is not profitability, it is dirty money ."

These statements shocked Didier Giraud, the farmer from the GG: "This lady allows herself to judge how my income is made, me who gets up at 6 a.m. 365 days a year. What hurts is to hear that farmers' income is dirty money," he reacted this Thursday to the microphone of the Grandes Gueules .

"If we keep calling farmers poisoners, there won't be any left in this country," he emphasizes.

The cattle farmer was not surprised by the Green Party representative's statements. "Ms. Rousseau is no stranger to this. She is always outrageous, always throwing stones at others," Didier Giraud analyzed on RMC , adding that "nobody cares about Ms. Rousseau's opinion."

Environmental activist Flora Ghebali disagreed with these remarks. She defended Sandrine Rousseau's vision. "Money made from childhood cancer and adult cancer is dirty money. No one said farmers shouldn't earn a living," she explained.

"She never said that farmers shouldn't be able to get by. She said it wasn't the right method," concludes the GG columnist, attempting to clarify the Green MP's comments.