2023-04-21 07:00:40
PORTRAIT – Fiercely opposed to pesticides, the co-founder of the agricultural start-up Futura Gaïa, a rotating geoponic farm that allows plants to grow without chemicals and with great water savings, is attacked by the Confédération paysanne du Gard which denounces a “inhuman technique”.
A deep wound and a great feeling of injustice. Pascal Thomas, co-founder with Nicolas Ceccaldi of the Gard start-up Futura Gaïa, a vertical farm where aromatic plants, salads, tomatoes and strawberries grow all year round, will never forget April 15, 2023. This day- there, at the call of the Confédération paysanne du Gard, around a hundred people demonstrated in front of his home, at the Mas de Polvelière, in Rodilhan, where his research and development site is also located, to refuse “energy-intensive agriculture, deterritorialized, without living beings and without peasants” and denounce “one more step in the enslavement of our food to finance”.
The demonstration is peaceful. But Pascal Thomas is in shock. “I don’t understand why I was targeted directly, he wonders. For security reasons, I even had to ask my mother, a retired farmer, to leave the house for the first time…
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