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

2022-08-03T11:36:08.802Z


HOW TO FEED 10 BILLION HUMANS IN 2050? (3/5) - Farmers defend the usefulness of livestock for the planet, and develop new foods.


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"France, do you still want your peasants?"

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For a decade, these slogans with a desperate tone have flourished on the edge of the fields or on the front of the 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 dull 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…

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Source: lefigaro

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