You interviewed Isabelle Saporta, author of "Black Book of Agriculture - 20minutes.fr
http://www.20minutes.fr/article/673951/chat-vous-interviewe-isabelle-saporta-auteur-livre-noir-agriculture
So begins Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, Isabelle Saporta has answered all your questions about intensive farming and its derivatives ...
Hello, I saw the show on France 3, a show with lots of technical info. Really well done and thank you for the information. But, precisely, what can we do, we consumers, who are not telling everything? We do not have enough information about the products on sale.
Pierrel
should, as much as possible away from processed products back to simple things, fruits and vegetables in season, if possible, purchased from small producers with whom you have a renewed trust. Recover the key word here is TRUST.
Hello, First of all, congratulations for your inquiry and the documentary that is coming. My questions: 1) What to do to get things moving in the right direction? 2) For those who can not, for economic reasons, eat only organic food, how to know the products, channels the "least bad"? Thank you. Jean
already eat local, buy from small producers, and respect the seasons. That alone is already huge.
Thanks for your fight, which I think is noble. I share many of your ideas. By cons you think that one day the things will change? Do you think there is hope for change? This change is caused by a change (see a revolution) of our consumption habits, do you think everyone will be able to change? Fabien
course! But we need a holy nudge policy! We can not do everything based on the consumer. They already pay a lot the consumer: aid, water bills, the health bill ... And he was ready, he, to put all that money in a virtuous agriculture, but for now, it's not that it is oriented toward public policy.
I saw your documentary very interesting. The most astonishing is to learn that it is primarily the grain storage silos which leads to pollution by fungicides and other potentially hazardous substances. Now tell us the name of the only retail brand that uses wheat stored in refrigerated silos to avoid this in the bread making it distributes to consumers. Another question: what do you think of organic products imported from Germany found on our shelves, and their carbon footprint? How is it that we hear more about the aftermath of the recent scandal of their organic food o livestock polluted by dioxins recycled industrial oils supposedly by mistake?
Francoyv
He would agree to pay 15 euros per tonne of wheat so that there are more pesticides storage ... That's what costs the refrigerated silos that can not be processed. Why do not we do massive? Moreover, it is obvious that as long as we feed our animals with all the waste of global industries, there will be health scandals. This year dioxin, some time ago, cadmium ... And this is unfortunately not finished.
Do not you think that the "system" farm in force shall, in its immobility agricultural unions, FNSEA in mind, and its over-representation in politics, susceptible to lobbyists' chemical plant Pharmaceutical?
environmental problems in particular. The example of water pollution is significant. Known for decades, there has never been treated differently by the statements without effect.
I'm puzzled convinced, too. It would take a deep reform of current trade union landscape. FNSEA pushed farmers in this productivist system. A system that makes them lose money, lose their health, undermines our own and ruin our environment. We must the Department of Agriculture emancipated from FNSEA. That slap his fist on the table. Imagine that the State Council in its latest report shows that agriculture is responsible for 60-80% of water pollution and pays 1% of the cleanup bill ...
has been shown that sustainable agriculture can produce as much as earning more and working less. Why the resistance of farmers polluters and poisoners?
Pat29
Ca, I wonder too ... I will not go up as you treat farmers poisoners, but cons, you're right, it is urgentissime changing software. But having struggled with the FNSEA lot these days ... Well, not won.
60 years and I am the son of small family farmers. It too easy to scapegoat. Everyone is responsible to start with the consumer who wanted and still wants the great wholesale and cheap. My parents were practicing agriculture that looks like bio today, but consumers did not want a job with a fruit or a bite of apple scab. To continue to live it took my parents to adapt the application and use pesticides, fertilizers and irrigation. Farmers had problems to solve, they used the products for sale on the market. When the detergent used by the housewife that contained polyphosphate and small eutrophic lakes watercourse was it pointed to the latter, no manufacturers have been asked to change their additives and water treatment plant must die-phosphate. Why does it the same approach with farmers? Give them other products and they will use them. Daniel
That's why I write that the peasants are the scapegoats of a system they sustain. We carry a collective responsibility regarding the current situation. It together and we will survive. Farmers have bent to specifications that pouvouirs public, retail, industrial, have imposed. Consumers are accustomed to flawless products have banned their ugly fruit baskets. All this is true. And that's also why no consumer education and without a strong political will, we will not get away. It is too easy to blame the farmers and let them alone.
The consumer is willing to pay more for organic fruits and vegetables, but what guarantees that the product is actually sold without pesticides and other treatments? Anarchist
ruling
You see where we are? This loss of confidence? There is an urgent need to reconnect with our farmers ...
How do you "educate" the French consumer who has not fear of contradiction by claiming both: good-goods market, so from the global food industry (eg chicken farm)-healthy products for their health that would normally be derived from organic farmer with his neighbor organized AMAP or not but unfortunately most of them are from foreign distribution channels organized on a long-standing industrial base (eg Chinese cabbages imported from Germany)?
Francoyv
The low prices are unrealistic! When consumers turn to the first prize, they forget that in doing so, they pay 4 times what they eat. Once with agricultural subsidies, a second time when slip their products in their cart, a third time when they pay the bill for clean water, and a fourth time when they regulate the slate of public health. If the government put more money in agriculture virtuous, consumers would not have to pay all these bills schedules ... But this would require political will.
And why not laws, but also financial support to stop this massacre? Is there anything to lose? Mythical
You're right, without a courageous intervention of government, we will not get away. Aid must be balanced, give most farmers the most virtuous. But for now, it's not about what we are heading. The latest Finance Act has granted 196 million euros to biofuels while reducing by two the aid of the Bio. Of the 12 billion that farmers receive less than 500 million are spent on environmental measures. It is not heavy ...
Hello, in your book you describe particularly the excesses of the pig. Is it worse than in other livestock (cattle, poultry, etc.).? If so, is that it does not affect other sectors less intensive? You also put in the value chain "White Blue Heart" for cattle feed, is there no other ways much simpler (feeding cows on grass, without needing to add flax) to balance our diet? Thank you.
Babiroussa
As I recalled in my introduction, I mentioned the pig, as I could talk about anything other intensive livestock operations. The example is interesting because pork is the meat we consume the most and they ingest half of veterinary antibiotics in France. The linen industry is a solution, the grass, as I say, too, is an even simpler for cows. Suffice to say that many solutions are available us to get out!
Hello, your struggle is a major challenge for the Company to become our children, grandchildren etc ... .. but do you think that companies like Monsanto, Pioneer and others, will you let them trample flower beds? Do you fear not having serious trouble with this occupation (large grain) who think only gain more money, more money without caring the least, the health of their citizens ? I watched a documentary on Monsanto, and what I discovered ais scared me, because these companies are capable of "ALL" to preserve their gains and even more.
LUMPcefini
are violent attacks and the fight is rough and uneven, you're right. But that's not why I'm impressed. Many farmers told me about the omerta of the environment, their fear, their fear. It is time to break this code of silence. If
distribution (hypermarkets, wholesalers and retail-wholesale, transport and various pharmacies) ceased to abuse our portfolio, our producers could perhaps expect to live decently, to the extent of their efforts, instead to indulge body and soul to the dictatorship stakhanovienne distributors-traders. They produce less, perhaps, better, and certainly for the same price. No?
Old Dear Old crouton crouton
, we are two old croutons ... I fully agree with your analysis. Let me give you a simple example. Today, our animals are fed a corn-soy diet that not only is detestable to the environment, but also generates a generalized deficiency in omega 3 for our milk, our meat, our eggs. And therefore for all of us who consume them. This deficit causes many diseases and causes obesity. However, it would grow flax on only 1% of agricultural land to end this imbalance. 1% that would cost 1 cent more per carcass meat. Who refuses to pay your opinion?
In your book you wonder why we should continue to be financed from public funds a costly for farmers, for our health and our environment and do not invest heavily in the conversation to a more sustainable agriculture respectful of people and the planet. Do you think the French administration, the department and institutes such as INRA can make this transition? The weight of the administration is not it too heavy? And is it that our European Union membership will help us? Gael
INRA is now working hard on these issues and offers many solutions. This institute is considering another way to cultivate that would allow farmers to earn a better living and respect the environment without lowering yields. At European level, the new Commissioner, Ciolos is very sensitive to all these questions. It is particularly concerned that the proteins are more heavily imported but grown in Europe. He hoped that our agriculture is more related to the soil. So we have a window of opportunity to reform the Common Agricultural Policy. It is also necessary that our Minister of Agriculture emancipated from the influence of the majority union, the FNSEA, and it revives the sense peasant ... A world
without pesticides, it is possible? Crops can they survive without pesticides? The model of intensive agriculture it is not based on them?
Bertrand
Yes! And that's great news! And it's not me saying it but the INRA (Institut National de Recherche Agronomique). They proved that by funding up to 200 euros per hectare of organic farming, and 40% by taxing pesticides, it reached 20% of surface organic advocated by the Grenelle environment while reducing by 40% phyto ... It's worth a try, right? But to do this, it will put money into agricultural research rather in the search for new pesticides and most importantly, it will learn the gestures of Agronomy: crop rotation, the importance of plant protein crops that capture nitrogen from the air and exhaust into the ground! In short, learn the art of beautiful peasant.
Hello. I have not yet been able to read your book but you seem to pull red ball on the French model of agriculture. I am familiar with the agricultural world to be employed as a seasonal (to pay for my studies). It is a complex business and drive that is not controlled by visiting a few farms here and there ... Remember that even when the current system has been place after the Second World War, at a time when wheat yields leveled to 10 quintals hectares, or you do not eat their fill (the bread was rationed at the time). The contribution of fertilizer and other plant products, and genetics has enabled today we lack nothing. What model do you think is the best (all organic, farming ...)? Dunga Dunga
Dear, I have not visited "a few farms here and there" but made two-year investigation in this setting by going on the field, staying there for months and meeting (very) many stakeholders. When you read my book, you'll see that I recall that the current productivist system was established after the Second World War to meet the food shortage. We're here today, we (rich countries) to produce better power-wasting. 50% of that produced by rich countries directly involved in the trash. At the same time, the system we have implemented pauperizes countries in developing as we ask them to abandon their crops to produce food to feed our cattle ... In doing so, we expose our farmers to fluctuations in global markets. You are aware that our farmers through a crisis very hard today, they earn more than their lives, they are in disarray and they become sick of the pesticides they apply nutrients. This system is costing us 57 billion euros in subsidies at the European level, what must be added the cost of cleaning up our environment and public health bill: explosion of environmental cancer and anti Bioshield. So yes, I think it's urgent to return to a little more reason.
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can affect our health? This is the title of a documentary aired Wednesday, February 16 France 3 and directed by Isabelle Saporta, journalist, who publishes this month "The Black Book of Agriculture. As they kill our farmers, our health and the environment "(Fayard). For two years she has traveled the French countryside and demonstrated the absurdity of the system of intensive agriculture.
Eat an apple, a priori healthy eating habit, becomes much less reassuring when we learn that the producers sprinkle of 26 treatments before harvesting and found five different pesticide residues when analyzed. With some 76,000 tons of pesticides used per year, France is the largest user in Europe. And half of all antibiotics in France would be consumed by pigs. Already
author of "Let's not mince our ills. Otherwise consume for better living "(Robert Laffont) on junk food, Isabelle Saporta has long prepared the emissions of Jean-Pierre Coffe" It does not food, it is eaten "on France Inter.
She was the guest editorial. She answered your questions on French agriculture, the drift of intensive production system and your diet above.
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