For Yaël Braun-Pivet, who was the guest of the “Talk-Le Figaro” on Wednesday, the proposed text aimed at improving the fate of animals
“goes in the right direction”.
Signatory in a personal capacity of the shared initiative referendum (RIP) for animals, launched in early July by the journalist Hugo Clément, the LREM deputy of Yvelines says she is
"very happy"
that such a social issue
"comes before Parliament" .
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“We were all recently struck by these images of the deer exhausted,
” she recalls.
I am personally for prohibiting this hunting technique
.
"
Ensuring that all measures are being debated, she describes many of his parliamentary colleagues
" very Going "
on these issues.
While some points are still under discussion,
"the debates promise to be extremely lively",
anticipates the ex-lawyer.
At the origin of the text on animal welfare, former Walkers of the majority group, now united in the Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity (EDS) group, including Cédric Villani.
The text aimed at banning certain practices including glue hunting (only suspended for this year, but not prohibited), hunting with hounds and laying hens in cages has not yet won the support of all.
"I will probably vote for the amended text,"
says the president of the Assembly's law committee, who, accustomed to arbitrating, recalls that there are always pros and cons.
"
There are not on the one hand the good guys and on the other the bad guys",
she continues, because the debate does not arise only in terms of ideology.
In responsibility,
"we also have farmers, breeders, sectors to protect and support," said
the elected representative, adding that
"everything cannot be done suddenly",
the main
thing
being to properly discuss measures to
" draw clear trajectories and objectives ”.
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Another sensitive subject that has caused much ink to flow, the return of neonicotinoids, a powerful insecticide, in sugar beet fields, banned in France since 2018, reintroduced Tuesday at the National Assembly.
Backpedaling?
"We had no choice,
defends the Marcheuse,
we have a sector which is in danger and which absolutely needed these products to survive."
In passing, she underlines that in terms of votes
"each political group was divided on this text",
adopted by 313 votes while 158 deputies opposed it.
Support the industry
To pass the pill among environmental defenders fearing among other things the destructive effects of the insecticide on bees, the president of the law committee ensures that its use has been authorized, only for sugar beets, but
"of very limited and framed way ”.
The objective being, she promises,
"to get out of it gradually but definitively" while
waiting for alternative solutions.
Hammering that it is necessary to support the sector, in the same way as breeding,
“we cannot sacrifice them in the midst of a period of crisis”,
the member for Yvelines underlines that this represents
“tens of thousands of jobs”.
"We will always eat sugar, so it will come from elsewhere and we can not support that",
concludes the elected on the issue.
