The biodiversity agent, the seller and the farmer! | EUROtoday

The biodiversity agent, the seller and the farmer!
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TIt begins on January 14 with this assertion from François Bayrou who evokes “the humiliation by a farmer of seeing his farm inspected with a gun in his belt. » Then arrived, the next day, early on, this response from Benoît Pradal, agent of the French Biodiversity Office(OFB) who speaks on France Inter “We are the ones who suffer humiliation…” And the civil servant, member of the SNAP FO union, provides: “We have the impression that the farmers not wish to see us on their farms. It’s the identical as if the sellers requested the police to not come to the cities to stop the deal. »

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In just a few hours, the sentence unfold on the Web and in these campaigns the place indignation is at its peak, as if the phrases spoken had served as a catalyst to dig up the ax. As if little doubt might stay relating to the emotions of the environmental administration in direction of the agricultural world. An administration already considerably manhandled by Gabriel Attal firstly of 2024 which declared, earlier than wanting to put the stated group underneath the supervision of the prefects: “Do we’ve got to return armed to regulate a hedge? “.

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Considering the overtransposition of standards and the controls that are correlated with it, the OFB’s visits to farms are increasingly criticized by farmersall productions combined. Exacerbated tensions and proportional to the avalanche of spontaneous reactions which have condemned, for several hours, the parallel established between farmers and drug traffickers. From the union leaders of the FNSEA to those of Rural Coordination and Young Farmers, the devastating comparison was able to bring together all persuasions around one observation: “Public decision-makers must put an end to this excess of zeal. »

ALSO READ Why are OFB agents so criticized by the agricultural world?Message received by Annie Genevard, Minister of Agriculture, who tweeted without further delay in the afternoon: “The comments made this morning on France Inter by an agent from the OF Biodiversity, comparing farmers to drug dealers, are eminently reprehensible. They testify to a state of mind which betrays the missions of this organization. They damage the image of farmers whose eminent role, feeding the population at the cost of demanding work, must on the contrary be supported. »

Placed under the dual supervision of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Ministry of Agriculture, the OFB, supported by environmentalist doxa, is, obviously, much less so for some time by those who sit in Matignon and rue de Varenne. For what ? Well quite simply because the spirit and the coercive injunctions deployed to control and constrain the peasants are not likely to promote appeasement between our countryside and the public authorities. The propensity to want to play the role of righter of wrongs, equipped with a revolver in their belt, does not go away, it is disproportionate. Equating those who nourish our society with those who rot it precipitates the debate into a new dimension that wearing the official badge will no longer be enough to curb.

The Agricultural Show in sight

The OFB has just discredited itself. And this, even if its director, Olivier Thibault, denies it by declaring on Twitter-X: “The comments made by certain union representatives in no way commit its establishment. » Before adding: “I reaffirm my support and my confidence in the agents of the establishment whose professionalism I salute. »

The damage is done and the Ministry of the Environment will have a hard time finding the appropriate gestures that will allow it to endorse what was said on the airwaves. A slippage which comes at the right time for the agricultural world a few weeks before the Agricultural Show and the negotiations supposed to resume with the government at the end of the consular elections. With, recurring in numerous broadcasts offered by the public audiovisual service, this stigmatization often stated freely and without the agricultural world being able to spontaneously provide the slightest contradiction.

ALSO READ When the return of the wolf fractures the countrysideSo are farmers and proponents of environmentalist dogma definitively irreconcilable? Perhaps, because the former no longer support, either in substance or in form, administrative intrusions. While the latter obviously confuse discernment and authority. With, to decide between the belligerents, the legislator who, without trembling, must now decide between those who must fight day after day to make a living from their jobs and those who are paid by society to control them.


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As for what differentiates the seller from the peasant, and because it nonetheless appears essential to remind us, allow us to say that if the primary, typically armed, destroys whole households by reselling illicit and deadly merchandise to their youngsters, the second feeds the populations and ensures our nation a meals provide twelve months a yr.

* Former agricultural unionist, Jean-Paul Pelras, journalist and writer of a number of works, has simply printed The Peasant Sacrifice – In 20 years, French farmers could have disappearedprinted by Erick Bonnier.


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