A dozen local producers landed unexpectedly in a store on the road to Canet-en-Roussillon in order to “restore” a labeling that they consider legal but detrimental to the profession.
Their objective: that no buyer is unaware that the cherry tomatoes sold at less than one euro per 250 grams when the local ones are displayed at 2.50 euros, are imported from Morocco. “Where Labor Costs and Environmental Regulations Distort Competition“insurmountable for the ten producers who still remain in the P.-O.
This Friday morning, they almost all mobilized to go to the fruit and vegetable section of the Carrefour de Château Roussillon. The activists of the FDSEA 66, Departmental Federation of Farmers’ Unions, joined the national appeal of Légumes de France to demand more readable labeling. What they did by affixing very conspicuous stickers on the trays of tomatoes. They lament that European regulations only mandate a 0.5mm display, “unreadable without a magnifying glass“, denounces Bruno Vila, president of the FDSEA 66, and demands to move to “at least 1.5mm”.