208 cows to be slaughtered for only one case health. Farmers surrounded by police. European regulations applied without nuance, without debate, without common sense. What's happening today in the French countryside is not just a farming episode: it's a methodical offensive against the peasantry, In the name of conformity, the climate and urgency. Behind the hushed words of Brussels and Paris lies a brutal reality: destroying those who provide food for better control. And it would be a grave mistake for Switzerland to believe that it will remain immune.
208 cows sentenced to death for only one case nodular dermatitis.
83 slaughtered a few days earlier in the Doubs region.
And an icy justification, repeated mechanically by the administration:
«The European regulation requires it.»
Move along. There's nothing more to discuss.
What is happening today in Ariège is not just a health episode.
This is a demonstration of technocratic power, It's brutal, dehumanised, blind to reality and deaf to any sense of proportion.
An entire herd sacrificed without proof of generalized extension,
broken families,
years of work wiped out,
even though the vaccination and zoning protocols have clearly failed to contain the disease.
But the machine goes on.
Because it's no longer a question of animal health.
These are ideological management of living things.
When slaughter becomes administrative dogma
This European regulation has not come about by chance.
It is part of a perfectly documented political trajectory.
La French Court of Auditors already explicitly recommended, in its reports on climate policies, a structural reduction in cattle numbers emissions, calling for an in-depth transformation of the livestock farming model.
The message was clear:
fewer cows,
fewer breeders,
less peasant farming.
Today, this logic is coming back into play through the sanitary door, with a worrying radicalism:
- total slaughter,
- zero nuance,
- zero authorised experiments,
- zero confidence in farmers' intelligence.
A chilling sense of déjà vu
The same rhetoric of urgency.
Same suspension of debate.
The same disqualification of any alternative.
The same injunction to obey «for the common good».
The same refusal to admit the failure of imposed protocols.
This is not to deny the existence of disease.
The idea is to refuse bureaucratic blindness.
When a policy produces more damage than the risk it claims to manage, it is no longer prevention.
That's ideology.
The brutalization of the farming world: the State against those who feed the country
In addition to regulatory violence, there is now physical and symbolic violence assumed.
Under Emmanuel Macron's regime, farmers have discovered what it means to be treated not as citizens, but as a "commodity". the population to be controlled.
Gassing of peasant demonstrators, sometimes from helicopters.
Deployment of dozens of police vans and mobile gendarmes in the face of farmers who had come to defend their livestock.
Surroundings, intimidation, criminalisation of farmers' anger.
The men and women who feed the nation are confronted with militarised policing methods, as if agriculture had become an enemy within.
When a government comes to treat its farmers like insurgents, it is no longer a social democracy in crisis.
It's a regime that no longer governs by consent, but by coercion.
This logic is reminiscent of the dark days when the administration took refuge behind obeying orders, when the norm became a weapon, and dehumanisation became a procedure.
The major unspoken message: Mercosur and the programmed death of the peasantry
This sanitary slaughter policy is strangely timely.
At the same time, the European Union is pushing the’agri-food agreement with Mercosur, paving the way for massive imports of foreign meat, produced at low cost, with high health, social and environmental standards incomparable to those imposed on European breeders.
On the one hand, we is strangling local livestock farming under an avalanche of standards.
On the other, we open the floodgates to external competition.
This is not an inconsistency.
It's a strategy.
Fewer French breeders.
Fewer family farms.
Less transmission.
Weakened, indebted and abandoned land.
What happens next?
Le cheap redemption by agribusiness multinationals, global investment funds, and financial players already omnipresent in land, water, energy and agri-food - BlackRock et al.
The aim is not to feed people.
The aim is to centralise and control the entire food chain.
- concentrated production,
- land grabbed,
- industrialised breeding,
- dependence on imports,
- uniform standards,
- total traceability.
L’food autonomy is an obstacle to this model.
The independent peasantry too.
And what about tomorrow? Switzerland?
The question is not theoretical.
Although France already applies these regulations with a destructive zeal, What will happen when Switzerland accepts, through the Bilateral III“ institutional agreements”, dynamic alignment with European law?
- same standards,
- same obligations,
- same culls,
- same decisions imposed from outside.
No vote.
With no real recourse.
Without sovereignty.
This is not a health crisis. It's a war on agriculture
A silent war.
Regulatory.
Technocratic.
A war waged in the name of climate, safety and compliance.
A war in which farmers become an adjustment variable.
Today in Ariège.
Yesterday in the Doubs region.
Tomorrow elsewhere.
When you destroy the people who feed a country, you are not protecting society.
We give it back dependent.
So controllable.