Greenpeace accuses major supermarket of favouring pesticide-use products
Ecology activists Greenpeace on Saturday morning unfurled a 200m² banner on the façade of a major French supermarket to denounce its deliberately lower prices for agricultural produce which uses pesticides.
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“Pesticides pour tous” (pesticides for all) was the message written on the banner displayed on the Leclerc supermarket near the south-western town of Toulouse.
A dozen activists dressed in red scaled the front of the multi-storey building; a further 30 remained on the ground along with several police officers.
In a press release, the organisation proclaimed that “with this action, Greenpeace caricatures the tone often adopted by Leclerc in its advertising. We want to reveal its true face: the consequence of its dogged determination to buy large volumes of fruit and vegetables at the lowest possible price is that our fields and our plates are full of pesticides.”
Greenpeace is calling on the supermarket to stop using pesticides. According to the organisation’s spokesperson, Cédric Gervet, Greenpeace has tested fresh produce from the supermarket and all contained traces of pesticides.
This action comes as part of a campaign Greenpeace launched on the 15th October to raise awareness in several towns across the country about how the supermarket chain has manipulated the slogans and posters of the May 1968 protests and civil unrest in France.
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