Some consumers may have the impression of making efforts, by consuming better, in season, French, at the right price … But according to the study carried out for Greenpeace France, the Veblen and Max Havelaar France Institute, one of the main players in fair trade, by the Societal Analysis of Collective Interest (BASIC) and published this Thursday, April 17, the observation is not very engaging. “The ecological footprint of French imports is considerable: water -delayed, deforestation sectors linked to the extension of agricultural land, water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions”, note the NGOs in a press release. And the disaster is also human since “These import sectors are also often associated with violations of fundamental rights of workers, land grabbing, and working conditions that remain worrying: child labor, forced work and insufficient wages or income.”
In summary, “You have to understand that a good part of our cart is based on misery and has a negative environmental impact”, Alert Blaise Desbordes, Managing Director of Max Havelaar France. According to an INSEE study on the part
