2024-01-27 05:19:06
Guest on BFMTV Friday morning, the former French international third row (82 caps) Louis Picamoles gave his support to the movement of angry farmers. “I support them, I understand their fight,” said the former Montpellier or Toulouse player, retired from the field since June 2022. Picamoles himself undertook a reconversion into goat breeding, before abandoning this project for economic reasons in August 2023.
Louis Picamoles, former captain of the XV of France who became a goat breeder, made the decision “to stop the project for economic reasons” pic.twitter.com/K46hhErs8t
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“Between the increase in prices, the cost of materials and bank rates which have exploded, it is no longer possible,” he explained, before explaining the difficulties of installation for a farmer. “There are a lot of standards, with a very heavy administrative part,” he described. We can understand that there are all these farmers in the street. I’m just one of many who doesn’t follow through on a family project. »
Picamoles finally gave up for “fear of taking my family into (…) great difficulties”, despite the success of his sporting career. “I can’t even imagine a young farmer… For three years, I met breeders and farmers who tried to dissuade me from settling down. It shocked me,” he explains.
On the list of the boss of European hunters
Today in the insurance sector, Louis Picamoles is also involved in politics and is on the list of the Rural Alliance in the 2024 European elections, led by the president of the National Hunters’ Federation Willy Schraen. The former third row is in fifth position. “I’m not a politician, it’s a world that I’m discovering,” he admits. But we are going to try to make certain feelings from the rural world heard to try to get things moving. »
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