Presidential Election 2022: Yannick Jadot wants to prohibit hunt on weekends and school holidays

The ecologist candidate in the presidential election announced wanting to prohibit the hunt on weekends and during the school holidays, and pleaded again for the definitive ban on hunting like that of all protected species.

Le Monde

The debate around the hunting, passionate subject that generates many crimson, continues. Yannick Jadot, Candidate Europe Ecology-Les Verts (EELV) to the presidential election, announced, on Friday, October 29, his willingness to ban practice on weekends and at school holidays. “Nature is needed to be accessible to everyone,” Has he justified on BFM-TV . “When I hear that three-quarters of people who live in rurality do not dare to walk on Sundays when there is rifle shots, it’s not normal,” he continued.

m. Jadot also reaffirmed to completely prohibit the hunting, like that of threatened species and “all the other cruel hunts”, and recalled that if he is elected President of the Republic in April 2022, a “Ministry of Wellbeing Animal “would be created.

Protect threatened species

The ecologist candidate also said, “Seventy percent of hunters come from cities. We stop telling us that it is the rural people who hunt!” His proposal is reminiscent of The Voynet Law , adopted in July 2000 and which planned a day without hunting per week, a measure deleted after three years of application. Today the hunt is allowed from the fall and during a large part of the winter, without daily conditions.

At the government policy on this subject, Mr. Jadot said that “if the French courts systematically break all the decrees posed by the government to please hunters” is to “protect the species threatened “. He recalled his will to prohibit “hunting birds and protected animals” and “all cruel hunts”, including hunting.

“At the bottom, Emmanuel Macron, he is a man under the influence of the lobbies. He is particularly under the influence of the hunting lobby”, hammered the MEP, qualifying “shocking” hunting authorization decrees traditional by the government on this subject, against European prescriptions.

“No tradition justifies to hurt animals”

On BFM-TV Friday, Mr. Jadot said he was “unambiguous” in favor of removing ritual slaughter methods in France. “I want to sort of industrial breeding, this breeding where the animals never see the outdoors. It is abominable for animals, abominable for those who work there. It makes us a diet that is not Good quality, “he continued. Finally, if he said “hearing these religious traditions, he felt” there is no tradition that justifies to hurt the animals “.

EELV MEP wanted to clarify its comments on this subject at the exit of plateau, in a video shared on Twitter, explaining that it only wished to be stunned before slaughter: “that it n There is no ambiguity: religions can have their traditions, including slaughter, but this slaughter can not exonerate the rules of animal welfare, especially dizziness. “

No misunderstanding about ritual slaughter. Every religion can have its traditions but no one can get rid of it … https://t.co/pqmgthl5wm

– yjadot (@yannick jadot)

/Media reports.