Calves, cows, pigs… The “France farm” is fighting back

Two and a half planets! This is what it would take to feed humanity in 2050. To get out of this impasse, start-ups, NGOs, industrialists, farmers, and scientists are working on a new food model. Overview of the solutions proposed by the adventurers of our plates.

“France, do you still want your peasants?”. For a decade, these slogans with a desperate tone have been flourishing on the edge of fields or on the front of columns of tractors demonstrating when the agricultural malaise is too strong. Often poorly paid, and attacked from all sides by NGOs, activists of the vegan cause or anti-speciesists, French peasants regularly express the muted anger that rises in the face of production models that jostle them. Like the soilless cultures of vertical farms or the in vitro meat trials in the laboratory. Some see these approaches as a direct and above all dangerous attack on the specificity of the French agricultural model: a…