The situation is becoming tense and demonstrations by angry farmers are increasing.
Producers denounce a lack of consideration on the part of the government but also, among other things, the multiplication of European standards.
Particularly aware of the problems encountered by the profession and invested in the cause,
Karine Le Marchand
- host of "L'amour est dans le pré", decorated as a Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit in 2013 - was keen to express her support for them .
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If she first spoke on her social networks, she then spoke on RTL to defend the interests of French producers while encouraging the inhabitants of France to buy local.
Karine Le Marchand reiterated her speech to our colleagues from Le
Parisien
.
“You have to eat French.
Those who have very tight budgets, we don't have to make them feel guilty, but those who aren't within 50 cents, we have to be careful about what we put on their plate.
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For the woman who recently produced the documentary
Famille de paysans
- which traces the upheavals in the agricultural world through the prism of six families - supporting this movement and understanding this anger was obvious.
“You can't produce a documentary like I did, present
“L'Amour est dans le pré”,
meet farmers all year round, and sleep soundly.
I am also a consumer, I have a 21 year old daughter.
Tomorrow, I don't want all the products we eat to arrive from I don't know where.
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“
I am at their service”
And if her public declarations are increasing, the TV host does not particularly wish to put herself forward in this crisis.
“We must give farmers a voice above all.
But if I can help, I am at their service,”
she emphasizes before declaring that she is ready to mobilize physically.
“If there is a big demonstration in Paris, I will, of course, go see them and I will ride on their tractor with pleasure!
says host Karine Le Marchand.
She also advises: “
it would also be good if non-farmers joined them”
.
“
I am convinced that the French have a conscience and a heart”
Karine Le Marchand
And yet, some signs in demonstrations that have taken place recently have not been in his favor.
The latter referred to the show “L’amour est dans le pré” by asserting the opposite, namely “misfortune is in the meadow”.
“It touched me and my phone hasn't stopped ringing
,” confides the woman who spoke with the Minister of Agriculture three weeks earlier.
“I put forward lots of topics with him.
If tomorrow, certain stores near us offer the guarantee that the farmer is considered, that he makes a living from what he does, we will change our purchasing habits.
I am convinced that the French have a conscience and a heart.
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