The FNSEA offers a food bonus to support the most modest households

The idea of ​​food vouchers is gaining ground. At the head of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), Christiane Lambert has spent several months with this solution and is received this Wednesday at the Élysée Palace by Emmanuel Macron a few days after the inauguration of the Agricultural Show.

The president of the first French agricultural union sees it as a preferable solution to the “anti-inflation basket” mentioned in recent weeks by several members of the Government such as the Minister of Commerce Olivia Grégoire and the head of Bercy Bruno Le Maire.

Almost a fortnight ago, Christiane Lambert also sent a letter to Alexandre Bompard, general director of Carrefour in which she “denounces the first excesses of the anti-inflation basket”.

In this letter, he describes Carrefour’s promotional operation entitled “Anti-Inflationary Challenge” as “a basket of low-quality products with no guaranteed French origin, at ridiculous prices.” In addition to its lack of targeting, he criticizes this particular system for delinking the prices of the products offered from the costs of French producers.

An annual check of 100 euros

To respond to these various issues, the president of the FNSEA advocates for food sovereignty in France in the face of the detrimental increase in imports and highlights the food voucher. “The latter makes it possible to address precarious populations directly, improves the quality and variety of their food, without inducing the destruction of value in our sectors,” he adds in his letter.

A few months ago, the first French agricultural union had considered a daily amount of three euros per person as part of this food check for 5.5 million French people in a precarious situation, that is, an annual budget cost of about 6,000 million euros. In short, it could be an annual check of 100 euros, in the form of holiday checks or energy checks, which would allow the 2 million most precarious French people to stock up on food products.

Although the government abandoned the path due to the vagueness around the criteria to choose the eligible products, the unionist proposes to introduce a system of flash code through phones to simplify the payment: the device would only apply to fruits and vegetables French, for example. .