“The temptation of political violence characteristic of the extreme right is growing in the French countryside” | EUROtoday

“Make Agriculture Great Again.” » In brief, this was the slogan of an occasion organized, Monday February 2, within the Senate by the Observatory of Agricultural Decline and for Self-Sufficiency, within the presence of parliamentarians, communicators, agricultural stakeholders and their minister, Annie Genevard. According to the organizers’ press launch, it was a matter of preventing towards requirements and unfair competitors to launch the “sustainable reconquest of food self-sufficiency” And “reconnect with the word produce”, rediscover the prosperity of a legendary previous and take away all obstacles on the trail to this reconquest.

If sure aims pursued are largely consensual within the agricultural world and society – specifically preventing towards competitors with imports topic to lax social, well being and environmental laws – others come up towards incontestable realities. Collapse of biodiversity, nearly generalized air pollution of consuming water by agricultural inputs and effluents, degradation of soil high quality and aridification of sure territories, development of power illnesses: persevering with “as before” would solely come at the price of more and more unsustainable harm.

In many respects, the “Drill, baby, drill!” » (“fore, baby, fore!”) chanted by supporters of Donald Trump finds a selected resonance in France, with the distinction that, not like the United States, France isn’t an oil energy however an agricultural one. The analogies between the American president’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) and its French counterpart are quite a few. We discover there this legendary golden age to be reconquered and this identical denial of scientific actuality, but additionally the identical type of propaganda: instrumentalization of the misery of a social group for the advantage of a minority, polarizing rhetoric of “them against us” (ecologists towards producers, city towards rural), and so forth.

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