INTERVIEW
"The expression 'from the fork to the fork' will never have been current," said Didier Guillaume after more than a month of health crisis linked to the coronavirus epidemic. Guest of La Table des bons vivant , Saturday on Europe 1, the Minister of Agriculture welcomes both the success of the platform bringing together producers in need of staff and volunteers ready to help them during confinement, which has already saw 250,000 people register, and the return of the French to more reasonable consumption.
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"I've been talking about food patriotism for a long time"
"At the end of this crisis, we must have a psychological shock", points out Didier Guillaume. "We have to say to ourselves: 'we have to eat seasonal products'. And then, that should allow us to talk about relocation of agriculture, short circuits. There has never been so many initiatives, drives, etc. (...) I have been talking about food patriotism for a long time, it is absolutely essential. "
CORONAVIRUS ESSENTIALS
> Can France hope for a more favorable scenario than Italy?
> Are women and people with blood type O more resistant?
> Are certain serious forms linked to a genetic factor?
> How will the distribution of masks take place in France?
> Back to school on May 11: under what conditions?
> How to keep sleep during confinement?
"I am considering a crisis distillation measure"
Asked about the difficulties encountered by grape growers, whose sales were badly affected by the crisis, the Minister of Agriculture also announced that he wanted "a specific plan for viticulture". "French winegrowers exported a lot to America, today it's over, everything is closed," he points out. "I am considering a crisis distillation measure (authorization to distill part of the overproduction of wine into alcohol, note ) to help them. It is necessary to remove stock and hectoliters from the market, I have made strong demands to the 'European scale. " To be continued.