“The FNSEA co-constructed with the State the powerful French agro-industrial model” | EUROtoday

Lhe epizootic of bovine dermatosis illustrates the fractures between the three foremost farmers’ organizations: the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) allied to the Young Farmers (JA), the Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation.

A simplistic political studying makes the latter a company “close to the left” and from the penultimate one “close to the extreme right”. However, if there’s a political group, it’s the FNSEA-JA couple. She performs a key function within the appointment of agriculture ministers. In 1986, its president, François Guillaume, simply appointed minister, might affirm that “French territory, due to its remoteness, was completely spared from the fallout of radionuclides following the accident at the Chernobyl power plant”. Eric Liégeon, the deputy within the National Assembly of Annie Genevard, present Minister of Agriculture, is a determine within the Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions of Doubs.

As the primary commerce union group, the FNSEA advantages from a tailored institutional framework. The checklist that got here first within the elections to the chambers of agriculture instantly obtains half of the seats. It can be the one group acknowledged by the State as consultant for negotiations within the agricultural sectors and industrial tribunals. It has in actual fact co-constructed the highly effective French agro-industrial mannequin, productivist, ultra-subsidized, exporting and financialized. The cattle {industry} isn’t any exception, it’s the main exporter of younger cattle supposed for fattening (greater than 1 million per 12 months). It can solely adhere to the technique of full culling of herds and focused vaccination which preserves its mannequin, rejected by the 2 different organizations. These advocate a extra localist mannequin, much less topic to agro-industry however oppose environmental laws.

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