“The Greens despise the agricultural world”: various right-wing elected officials lit up the environmentalist party on the networks this weekend. Object of their ire, a written question from Sophie Desbiolles to the Council of State. On May 19, the MP questioned the merits of a School Milk Day (promoted by Swissmilk) and suggested a Day of Alternatives to Dairy Products. The theme is explosive, the Geneva Greens having banned their elected officials from eating meat in public on May 21 (the decision should be reviewed), creating an outcry.
Sophie Desbiolles considers it “surprising to make a deal” out of a question, “my role being to ask questions when the Western system is neither durable nor sustainable”. For her, the debate is on aviation and CO2, not yet on meat and milk. “However, there is no consensus on the benefit of milk for humans. We do not want to destroy the agricultural world, but support change.”
President of the Greens, Delphine Klopfenstein-Broggini believes that “the real social question to ask is: what agriculture for tomorrow? We must work to respond to this with the agricultural world.” The Greens strike because they are at the forefront, she judges. “The example is cars: today I dare to say things that were shocking twenty years ago.”