WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE FRANCE - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, UCL Press Release: Duplomb Law: The Far Right Serving Agribusiness (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The National Assembly has definitively adopted the Duplomb Law, despite

unprecedented mobilization from parts of the agricultural sector and
civil society. The reintroduction of pesticides and the planned
intensification of industrial livestock farming: this text, dictated by
the FNSEA (National Federation of Agricultural Workers) is an aberration
in the context of a climate and health crisis, and the conventional
agricultural model. This text, supposed to "remove the constraints of
farming," actually represents major setbacks in agricultural, health,
and ecological terms. It was designed to serve the interests of
agribusiness, under the leadership of the FNSEA (National Federation of
Agricultural Workers), whose senior executives appear increasingly
disconnected from the realities of agricultural workers. This law
provides, among other things, for the reintroduction of pesticides
banned by European legislation, such as acetamiprid, which is recognized
as destructive to bees, the foundation of our ecosystems. The health of
farm workers, farmers, and people living near intensive crops will also
be seriously endangered. While our healthcare system is in its death
throes, exposure to these insecticides will lead to a surge in serious
illnesses, including cancer.

A helping hand to agribusiness, a slap in the face to farmers

The establishment and expansion of factory farms will also be
facilitated by raising the livestock thresholds above which
environmental permits are required. In concrete terms, this means less
control, greater concentration of animals, more pollution, more
concrete, and more manure. An industrial model that has already
demonstrated its ecological and social failure, and which is now being
promoted as a solution for the future. But these mega-farms don't feed
the land: they devastate it. The planned intensification also involves
water monopolization, through the facilitation of mega-basin projects
that the law plans to classify as "major public interests."

A Parliamentary Soap Opera

On Tuesday, July 8, the National Assembly definitively adopted the
Duplomb bill, after a parliamentary soap opera as interminable as it was
undemocratic. While the text was scheduled to be debated in public
session on May 27, the FNSEA (National Federation of French Workers'
Unions), hand in hand with the right and the Minister of Agriculture,
orchestrated a rally in front of the Palais Bourbon. Meanwhile, a
cleverly executed political maneuver allowed the right to impose a coup:
the text was withdrawn from the debate, without discussion or amendment,
and sent directly to the joint committee. This was a clear attempt to
stifle any parliamentary opposition. The committee's conclusions were
released on July 1: the text will be submitted to a vote en bloc, in
both chambers, without the possibility of amendment. Unsurprisingly, the
right and far right voted overwhelmingly in favor of the law, thus
aligning themselves wholeheartedly with the interests of the
agro-industrial complex.

Let's organize the balance of power, from the grassroots up.

To pretend that this proposal meets the needs of the "agricultural
world" as a whole is a lie. It only serves the interests of a minority
of large farmers, industrial groups, and land speculators. They are the
ones destroying the incomes of farmers and agricultural workers, driving
them into debt, and imposing a headlong rush toward production. They are
the ones imposing standards favorable to exports and long supply chains,
while it is farmers who feed the regions and care for the environment.

This must not signal a weakening of our camp. If Parliament has always
been the body that registers capitalist interests, it is in the streets,
in the fields, on the roads, and in the markets that we must impose a
balance of power. There will be no social justice without ecological
justice, no food sovereignty without a break with agro-industrial
capitalism. It's not just a law that must be repealed; it's an entire
system that must be brought down.

Libertarian Communist Union, July 18, 2025

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?La-loi-Duplomb-passe-en-force-l-extreme-droite-au-service-de-l-agro-industrie
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