The host of “L’Amour est dans le pré”, Karine Le Marchand, went this Monday, January 29 to a blockage point in Seine-et-Marne, to provide support and croissants to angry farmers.
Croissants for farmers. Karine Le Marchand, host of L’Amour est dans le pré, went this Monday, as she announced on Sunday on social networks, to a blocking point in Seine-et-Marne to provide support to farmers .
The host had chosen the croissant for its symbolic side. Citing pell-mell the history of croissants, created “because Parisian bakers were tired of paying taxes on salt”, and Marie-Antoinette (“Give them some brioche”), Karine Le Marchand therefore brought pastries to farmers mobilized in many regions this January 29 to show their anger.
How Karine Le Marchand became the spokesperson for farmers
“Don’t give up”
Karine Le Marchand came to lend her support to “farmers who are fighting so that we continue to have sovereignty, to eat quality things”. “We too must tell you that we love you and that we thank you.”
“We are with you and the French are with you, so don’t give up,” she said. However, she called on consumers to change their habits to enable the survival of French agriculture.
“At some point you have to stop buying crap,” exclaims Karine Le Marchand.
Despite everything, she wanted to clarify later that her speech did not apply to the poorest, but to the “major part of the French”.
“We understand your distress”
“Many of you guess that it is not feigned, my attachment to your corporation,” also explained the host of L’Amour est dans le pré.
“If you succeed in having a tough, lasting movement, without violence, you will make the difference with all the other movements,” said Karine Le Marchand.
“I believe that we understood your distress, and that we also understood that despite everything, it is the politicians who decide, and that although you fought and carried out protest movements, they were never heard.”
“The cemetery of our fridges”
Referring to mass distribution, Karine Le Marchand said: “it is not normal that we can cut the producer’s purchase prices to do promotions, etc. Today’s promotions in supermarkets are the graveyard of our fridges of tomorrow”.
“Consumers can change the situation. At some point, we have to stop buying crap,” she said, later explaining that she is not addressing the poorest French people.
Large retail brands are particularly targeted by the farmers’ movement. Farmers criticize brands like Leclerc for favoring products manufactured elsewhere in Europe rather than in France in order to benefit from lower costs.
Last November, the host was decorated by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau with the Officer’s Cross of Agricultural Merit. She also produced a documentary, entitled Peasant Families, 100 Years of History.
