Thierry Grosjean - Capen
71 Tuesday, June 30th by Claude-Marie Vadrot
The film on the course of the strawberry Andalusian off season and bursting with pesticides broadcast on France 5 in May, is the collateral victims. Under pressure from the English government has informed the chain of its intention to file a complaint, the few people in the region of Huelva who agreed to testify in front of the camera are threatened, by mail and telephone.
is the case of Juan Francisco, a militant of the association Ecologistas en accion "who had the courage to show us the places where the drums of pesticides and dangerous, some are banned, are left with the heaps of plastic greenhouses and crops. Possibly pollute more rivers and groundwater already affected by the infiltration of "floor cleaners" as chloropicrin, a product that was an ingredient of poison gas (14 and Iraq war against the Kurds). This is Juan Francisco, with another militant, who guided us to the illegal abstraction of water that drain the only river leading to the Doñana National Park and on the strawberry fields illegally installed on the remaining forest Regional.
To his misfortune, Juan Francisco lived and worked for 27 years in a garage in Bonar, in the middle of 5000 hectares of crops in the strawberry industry in California patented. Since the release of the film, he received threatening phone calls either, either physical threats, and his boss is under pressure to dismiss him as its main clients are farmers in the strawberry. These threats from agro-industrial Strawberry had already brought the WWF-Spain to refuse to help us as a result of the investigation that was conducted by WWF-France and relayed two years ago by Politis: they were asked not to speak to the cutter by the English Ministry of Agriculture.
Current threats come from two groups. First agro-farmers in the strawberry aboveground already see sales decline export their fruit to a strawberry and worry that they have started production in Morocco to take advantage of labor even cheaper than that they operate at 5, 30 euros an hour; and then the Breeders Californian, their strawberry industry is patented, receive a royalty for each strawberry plant used. An extraordinary pension they expected to impose soon in the south of France where farmers in the strawberry already crossed the Pyrenees into Spain to buy treatment products that are banned in France.
For Garriguette off season, for example ... The English Ministry of Agriculture and "Farmers" Andalusian see further: they believe that the challenge to their practices may soon be put in charge of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, asparagus and most vegetables and fruits out of season products aboveground and massive recourse to pesticides which are exported to France through the private commercial platform of St. Charles in Perpignan. It is there that moved each year more than 400,000 truckloads of commodities that are subject only to routine health checks and the results are communicated to producers ... and the local representative of the Department of Agriculture is not entitled to that information.
Anyway, strawberries and the rest only stay a few hours on the private market, Perpignan, when the tests are known, the cargoes are already distributed to supermarkets, which are the main customers of these fruit and vegetable eaters and suspects CO2.La pressure of a central purchasing department stores on price, their need to maintain the maximum opacity on their margins are such that it is feared that more and more gardeners French manufacturers are rapidly converted to methods and products out of season and grown above ground with a growing supply of chemicals. It is in this sector that "consumption "Pesticide, despite promises of the Grenelle Environment, recorded two years the largest increase in recent years.
The lesson of this case is clear: beyond the responsibility of farmers and chemical manufacturers, there is the demand of increasingly restrictive for large areas off-season and cheaper. With the blessing of the French government prepared to let consumers take all the risk for "post" so-called price cuts ... They contributed to the "invention" of that Strawberry, if one can call it "strawberry" this thing crunchy, dirty and tasteless. What may apply to some of the fruits and vegetables from Andalusia. In
consumer, too, to turn away from this kind of products they sold 80 000 tonnes in France in 2008. Part ending their journey of 2000 kilometers in "delicious" ... jams
Sylvia Cardona Policy Officer AVES FRANCE http://www.aves.asso.f
Strawberries imported the impact on the environment and Health
sent nature-boy-79 . - Discovery Travel & video.
71 Tuesday, June 30th by Claude-Marie Vadrot
The film on the course of the strawberry Andalusian off season and bursting with pesticides broadcast on France 5 in May, is the collateral victims. Under pressure from the English government has informed the chain of its intention to file a complaint, the few people in the region of Huelva who agreed to testify in front of the camera are threatened, by mail and telephone.
is the case of Juan Francisco, a militant of the association Ecologistas en accion "who had the courage to show us the places where the drums of pesticides and dangerous, some are banned, are left with the heaps of plastic greenhouses and crops. Possibly pollute more rivers and groundwater already affected by the infiltration of "floor cleaners" as chloropicrin, a product that was an ingredient of poison gas (14 and Iraq war against the Kurds). This is Juan Francisco, with another militant, who guided us to the illegal abstraction of water that drain the only river leading to the Doñana National Park and on the strawberry fields illegally installed on the remaining forest Regional.
To his misfortune, Juan Francisco lived and worked for 27 years in a garage in Bonar, in the middle of 5000 hectares of crops in the strawberry industry in California patented. Since the release of the film, he received threatening phone calls either, either physical threats, and his boss is under pressure to dismiss him as its main clients are farmers in the strawberry. These threats from agro-industrial Strawberry had already brought the WWF-Spain to refuse to help us as a result of the investigation that was conducted by WWF-France and relayed two years ago by Politis: they were asked not to speak to the cutter by the English Ministry of Agriculture.
Current threats come from two groups. First agro-farmers in the strawberry aboveground already see sales decline export their fruit to a strawberry and worry that they have started production in Morocco to take advantage of labor even cheaper than that they operate at 5, 30 euros an hour; and then the Breeders Californian, their strawberry industry is patented, receive a royalty for each strawberry plant used. An extraordinary pension they expected to impose soon in the south of France where farmers in the strawberry already crossed the Pyrenees into Spain to buy treatment products that are banned in France.
For Garriguette off season, for example ... The English Ministry of Agriculture and "Farmers" Andalusian see further: they believe that the challenge to their practices may soon be put in charge of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, asparagus and most vegetables and fruits out of season products aboveground and massive recourse to pesticides which are exported to France through the private commercial platform of St. Charles in Perpignan. It is there that moved each year more than 400,000 truckloads of commodities that are subject only to routine health checks and the results are communicated to producers ... and the local representative of the Department of Agriculture is not entitled to that information.
Anyway, strawberries and the rest only stay a few hours on the private market, Perpignan, when the tests are known, the cargoes are already distributed to supermarkets, which are the main customers of these fruit and vegetable eaters and suspects CO2.La pressure of a central purchasing department stores on price, their need to maintain the maximum opacity on their margins are such that it is feared that more and more gardeners French manufacturers are rapidly converted to methods and products out of season and grown above ground with a growing supply of chemicals. It is in this sector that "consumption "Pesticide, despite promises of the Grenelle Environment, recorded two years the largest increase in recent years.
The lesson of this case is clear: beyond the responsibility of farmers and chemical manufacturers, there is the demand of increasingly restrictive for large areas off-season and cheaper. With the blessing of the French government prepared to let consumers take all the risk for "post" so-called price cuts ... They contributed to the "invention" of that Strawberry, if one can call it "strawberry" this thing crunchy, dirty and tasteless. What may apply to some of the fruits and vegetables from Andalusia. In
consumer, too, to turn away from this kind of products they sold 80 000 tonnes in France in 2008. Part ending their journey of 2000 kilometers in "delicious" ... jams
Sylvia Cardona Policy Officer AVES FRANCE http://www.aves.asso.f
Strawberries imported the impact on the environment and Health
sent nature-boy-79 . - Discovery Travel & video.
