Agricultural Fair: the booth Charal targeted by breeders – Le Figaro

VIDEO – The stand of the brand group Bigard, a number of slaughter in France, was sprayed with a fire extinguisher and thirty kilos of flour. Charal “regrets acts of vandalism”, for his part said the company.

At the Agricultural Fair, the strokes of brilliance one after the other. Saturday, Hollande was greeted by breeders boos and insults. Later, the stand of the Ministry of Agriculture was dismantled by activists of the FNSEA. This Sunday, cattle breeders sprayed with a fire extinguisher and flour booth Charal, brand group Bigard a number of slaughter in France to denounce its price policy.

“When Bigard takes 100 euros there by 8 for the producer, “explained the public breeders in red tee-shirt marked” Our profession has a price, “while distributing fake 100 euro note. “When you pay the meat between 17 and 20 euros a kilo, we know that we pay to 2.50 to 3 euros,” also commented Pierre Vaugarny megaphone, secretary general of the Federation Nationale Bovine (FNB), which called for the event with the support of the FNSEA, represented by its Secretary General Dominique Barrau. Meanwhile, a group of breeders sprinkled behind the Charal stand with an extinguisher and scattered thirty kilos of flour.

“As a responsible player , Charal has brought and will continue to make its full contribution to defend the French beef industry “

the instruction was to avoid violence after stormy reception the day before President Francois Hollande and the dismantling of the stand of the Ministry of Agriculture. “Charal regret vandalism suffered on its stand at agricultural show,” responded the company, in a statement, saying “includes (re) difficulties cattle ranchers who fall under the structural and cyclical causes why answers can only be concerted and collective “.

” significant player in the French beef industry, Charal buys always been at the heart of the French breeding ponds. As a responsible, Charal has brought and will continue to make its full contribution to defend the French beef industry, “argued the group, noting that 100% of the chopped pieces of meat and burgers are French. Pierre Vaugarny, the objective of this brief demonstration was to draw public attention to the omnipotence of the Bigard group, which totals half of slaughter capacity in France and refuses any dialogue with the profession. “Even when the minister calls the M. Bigard refuses to come and explain,” he said.

Last summer the group had refused to participate in setting a price minimum purchase meat producers at round tables organized in the department. The union leader also said to show visitors the concept of “ore”, which consists of meat scraps mixed with fat and collagen used in particular for ready meals, which degrades meat and behind it, the animal, a notion purely commercial and industrial raw material. “Talking ore is symbolic of industrial drift behind it,” he insists. “What the consumer buys meat anyway? I dream you came to seek Charolais or Blonde d’Aquitaine “.