Haute-Loire. Duplomb Law: The debate rages even on market stalls

"A few showers won't stop me from coming to the market to buy my tomatoes," says a customer trying to take shelter near a stall at the Monistrol-sur-Loire market on Friday morning. But the discussion with the producer isn't about the weather, but about the Duplomb law and the reintroduction of the pesticide acetamiprid .

An organic market gardener in Pertuis and a member of the Confédération paysanne 43, Joris Duclaut is, unsurprisingly, opposed to the new regulations. "I don't judge my colleagues who work conventionally, but I think the Duplomb law is a step backward and a downward leveling of our agriculture that will only benefit the largest farmers." Having come looking for asparagus, his customer agrees: "That's true! If competition is the problem, why aren't these molecules banned everywhere in Europe?" And the producer...

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