A-Infos (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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