“The DUPLOM law devotes a political capitulation, that of ecological bifurcation” | EUROtoday

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HASDo we go, as legislators, already renounced? This is the brutal, however professional query, raises the invoice “aimed at lifting the constraints to the exercise of the profession of farmer” (in any other case known as “DUPLOM law” [du sénateur Les Républicains (LR) de la Haute-Loire Laurent Duplomb]). Because below her air of technical textual content and rural widespread sense, she really devotes a political capitulation: that of ecological bifurcation.

Beekeepers demonstrate against pesticides and against Duplomb, in Toulouse, April 27, 2025.

This textual content tells us this: bifurcation, we have no idea do, so too dangerous. Too dangerous for kids who will probably be born with malformations. Too dangerous for farmers trapped in a breathless mannequin, with yields that collapse by monoculture and resistance to phytosanitary merchandise. Too dangerous for bees, which pollinate three quarters of the cultures we eat, and which we condemn to demise by reautorizing substances like acetamipride.

Agrobusiness can rely on an insidious obscurantism, which good points energy on the prime of the State: the Minister of Agriculture affirms that acetamipride would create “no disorders observed on the mortality and the behavior of bees”, even when the other has been extensively confirmed by scientific research on the topic.

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