[L’INVITÉE] “Let us tell consumers the truth! »

French farmers now have their backs against the wall. At a time when rural mobilization is resuming, when the Mercosur agreement, devastating for French farmers, seems well on the way to imposing itself on France, BV receives Véronique Le Floc’h as a special guest. President of the Rural Coordination, one of the three main agricultural unions, she farms with her husband, in Finistère, 180 hectares on which she raises around a hundred dairy cows and twenty limousines.

France is experiencing a change of government and farmers are preparing to renew their representatives in the chambers of agriculture. We asked Véronique Le Floc’h if Mercosur would really change anything, when the French borders already allow many agricultural products from all over the world to pass through, and what she concretely expects from the Bayrou government and the Minister of Agriculture. ‘Agriculture Annie Genevard, whom her union accuses of serving as a communications agency’ for the competing union FNSEA. “ We are losing the rural fabric », Alarms Véronique Le Floc’h, who specifies that 100,000 farms have disappeared in ten years. She defends “ a family model that lives on independence and freedom » and asks: “ To what extent are we going to sacrifice agriculture? » We asked him who was getting fat on the backs of French farmers and how to live with the wolf. Interview with a representative of those who feed us and provide life to three quarters of French territory.

Interview conducted on December 16, 2024. Annie Genevard remained Minister of Agriculture in the Bayrou government.