She has been one of the faces of the fight against pesticides in recent years in Gironde. Marie-Lys Bibeyran stops her fight born from the death of her brother and publishes a book “We will tell you in 20 years. Pesticides, wine and sewn lips”, to close the loop.
This is the last militant act of Marie-Lys Bibeyran. Whistleblower within the Info Médoc Pesticides collective and more generally in our department, on the dangers linked to the use of pesticides in vineyards. She has just published a book “We’ll tell you in 20 years. Pesticides, wine and sewn lips”. A sort of end point to his eleven years of activism in the Médoc to advance legislation, the protection of the little hands of the vines. Commitment born from the death of his brother Denis, in 2009, a tractor winemaker, from liver cancer. It was the phrase of the cancer specialist who examined his brother that inspired the title of the book when he asked him if his illness was linked to his work in the vineyards. “We’ll tell you in 20 years”. A judged response “cynical of a practitioner of this level” judge Marie-Lys Bibeyran, who wants through this writing, “to leave an imprint of what I had achieved over eleven years and to reestablish the facts and deliver my truth.” This label of whistleblower still sticks to her skin and also weighs on her, this is what she says as she left the wine industry and completed training to work in a town hall. “Turning the page requires this book and undoubtedly a move away from the Médoc.” And to conclude, that she hopes to have contributed to stopping things, “to raise awareness on the subject of agricultural workers and the population”.
