Whistleblowers (2/4)
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Invested body and soul in denouncing green algae pollution in Brittany, the journalist chose to be less exposed after the success of her comic strip. She opted for a gentler lifestyle, in line with her ideals.
No regrets, it was the investigation of his life. But without being ungrateful, sometimes Inès Léraud is a little tired of being “the daughter of green algae. Almost ten years since the journalist arrived in Brittany to investigate. Not on these “sea lettuces” which invade the coasts, particularly in the north of the region, but on the cause of their proliferation: intensive agriculture, and all its human and environmental consequences. In 2015, she started a Journal breton in the show Feet on the ground from France Culture, with carte blanche to recount his investigations. She settled with her partner in Coat-Maël, a hamlet in Côtes-d'Armor, to fully immerse herself in this territory, and little by little gained the trust of the locals.
Between the breeders' crisis, meat factories and family farms, she devotes several episodes to
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