“Let’s not import agriculture that we don’t want”

Jean-Pascal Pelagatti était ce jeudi matin devant la base logistique d'Aldi à Sauvian. J.-P A. – Midi Libre

Le viticulteur biterrois, Jean-Pascal Pelagatti a suivi les manifestants biterrois toute la journée pour défendre les droits et les attentes de sa profession.

The winegrower from Béziers, Jean-Pascal Pelagatti of the FDSEA was with the demonstrators this Thursday morning, in front of the Aldi logistics base, but also at the entrance to the Aldi logistics base. highway. The wine world is, for him, asphyxiated by standards and regulations where only France puts itself forward. "We want to meet the standards, but we can no longer support the import of agriculture that we don't want. In France, we want to wash whiter than white. And this does enormous harm to our profession. There are European regulations, our closest neighbors respect them, but we, in France, go further. Why ?"

Too many differences

Result: wine growers do not have the same production costs at all. They also do not have the same environmental and social standards. "And it becomes very complicated for us. From now on, ecology is hurting us. I have children, I don't want to poison them. I am convinced that many technocrats invent standards without ever having set foot in a vineyard or even in a field. These green fundamentalists are not helping us when we should be working together on a lot of issues."

Need water

This is how Jean-Pascal Pelagatti returns to winter detentions. "In these times, they would be very useful. We would recover water from runoff or from the lower Rhône, in no case from the groundwater and here again there is opposition from certain ecologists."

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