"This is what we do every day for two weeks: we throw our milk and we are fed up, it is more possible". Like Stéphane, about 30 farmers dumped on Friday evening cans of milk on the grids of the prefecture. Helpless, they feel that nothing prevents the consignment of their milk. Since the burning of the Lubrizol plant on 26 September in Rouen, cow milk near the affected area was considered unfit for consumption. Didier Guillaume had made it clear that the producers would again be able to sell their production, but none of the restrictions were lifted Friday by the prefect. Hence their presence in front of the prefecture.
"The ministers themselves say that the results of the analyzes are good, so we now consider that we have a consumable product.We do not understand why we are still in the same position," continues Stéphane at the microphone. Europe 1. Still on Friday, an agreement between the state and Lubrizol was found to compensate farmers.
Breeders launch an ultimatum
But the president of the FNSEA in Normandy, Arnold Puech d'Alissac, continues to denounce an ubiquitous situation. "The minister announces that the prefect will take a decree for the milk collection to resume, and we learn that it is postponed 72 hours," he laments at the microphone of Europe 1. "We have played seriously since 15 days, farmers were told 'no, we do not deliver, no, we do not market', it puts constraints on everyone and behind it, nothing happens: it's not serious, "he regrets.
Dairy farmers are now issuing an ultimatum: if the lifting of the restrictions does not take place before Monday, they will renew their actions.