The European Parliament has just voted a text, rather favourable to GMOs, which will soon be discussed by the ministers concerned. But the opponents always express their concern. Interview with José Bové, from the Confédération Paysanne, who deplores the reopening of the debate on GMOs and plans to continue to destroy the experimental plots. In Gaudiès in the Ariège, farmers of the Peasant Confederation destroyed an experimental fields of transgenic rapeseed and carried out an action in a Toulouse supermarket to hunt for products containing GMOs.
Reportage. Yesterday 150 farmers and consumers gathered at the call of the Peasant Confederation destroyed a plot of transgenic corn in Morbihan. It was leased by a farmer to an American firm. Comment on images of the plot after its destruction alternating with interviews with Patrick Guillerme, from the Confédération paysanne, and Pierre Hamery, mayor of Porcaro and a plateau in situation of Guénaëlle Theaud
In Millau, the construction site of a Mac Donald restaurant was targeted by 200 farmers from the Confédération Paysanne and the Syndicat des Producteurs de lait de brebis. They protest the US trade sanctions against several French products, including roquefort. Comment on factual images alternating with the statements of José Bove, the union of sheep milk producers, Marc Dehani, director Mac Donald de Millau and Raymond Fabrègues, spokesperson of the Peasant Confederation.
At a joint general assembly the CNSTP (National Confederation of Peasant Workers' Unions and the FNSP (National Federation of Peasant Trade Unions). came together in one union: the Peasant Confederation. They oppose the policy of François Guillaume, former president of the FNSEA, the main agricultural union. They want to bring small farmers together. Comment on images of a demonstration and the general assembly alternating with the interview of José Bové, member of the bureau of the Peasant Confederation, who presents the objectives of this new union.
Original demonstration in Paris organized by some members of the Confederation who protested against the stabilization and freezing of the land. A farmer plowing the lawn of the Champs de Mars.