For several days, theFarmers are mobilizing to make their demands heard. Through snail operations, highway blockades or by attacking large-scale supermarkets, they are demanding a fair price for the foodstuffs they produce and the removal of the numerous French and European standards that are accumulating. . Karine Le Marchand, who knows well farmers, is committed to their side. Thanks to the show Love is in the meadow, which she has been running for fourteen years, she knows nothing about the difficulties some people have to live. The star host of M6, recently decorated with the officer’s cross in the Order of Agricultural Merit by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau, spoke on the subject with The Parisian. This anger does not surprise him and makes him “ pleasure “, she declared in the columns of the newspaper published this Friday, January 26. For her, this farmers’ movement is a “ civil insurrection ».
Karine Le Marchand promises to join the procession of farmers if they mobilize all the way to Paris “ I will of course go see them and ride their tractor », Launched the host. She would also like “non-farmers join them » and support the movement. She should therefore join them today, since a “ blockade of Paris » should start around 2 p.m. Karine Le Marchand, who recently produced the documentary Peasant families: 100 years of historyand who meets farmers for his flagship show, recognizes thatshe can no longer sleep on [ses] two ears “. Despite her commitment, she remains pessimistic about the future of French agriculture: “ The situation is serious. The young people saw their parents work eighteen hours a day to earn pennies and make themselves look like idiots on top of that. Young people don’t want to experience the same thing », she explains to Parisian.
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Karine Le Marchand, spokesperson for farmers in distress
At the start of the week, Karine Le Marchand had already made herself heard on RTL and wanted to send a message to the government. “ This anger and this peasant distressit is not recent “, she wanted to point out, specifying that “ every three days, we have a farmer who commits suicide “. The host then called on the government to “impose transparency” on prices. “ The French love farmers. The French, I am sure, agree to pay a few cents more if they are sure that it will go into the pocket of a farmer and that it will save his life “, she detailed. She continues: “ Producers must set a price and not change it every second. We are in a catastrophic system where we only talk about promotions », observed Karine Le Marchand.
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