"Against science, against health, against the general interest": the Duplomb law, an explosive text that revives banned pesticides and attacks the left
The controversial bill, which seeks to reintroduce certain pesticides, is due to be debated by the joint committee starting Monday, June 30. The left intends to defund the bill, while demonstrating that it is not "anti-farmer," as the right and the National Rally (RN) claim.
The bill's supporters have two stated objectives: "lifting constraints" and demonizing the left. On May 26, the National Assembly will consider the bill proposed by Laurent Duplomb, a Republican (LR) senator from Haute-Loire—incidentally, a former FNSEA president of the local chamber of agriculture.
Speeches are coming thick and fast, particularly from the right and far right, defending the use of pesticides and diminishing the role of health agencies against the intentions of the New Popular Front (NFP) forces. "This is a law of unprecedented scope against science, against ANSES, against public health, against the general interest," laments Delphine Batho, Green MP for Deux-Sèvres.
"Against the ZADists!" vehemently echoes Alexandre Portier of the Left. "We are only against the left ," adds Laurent Jacobelli, his counterpart from the National Rally. "You harass farmers, you should be ashamed. The poison is the left." Is anti-left hatred shared by the agricultural world? The reactionaries, for their part, are convinced of it.
Following the adoption of a motion of rejection tabled by the law's rapporteur, Julien Dive (LR),...
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