WE ARE right in the middle of sunflower growing season here
right in the middle of France.
These titans of the countryside soar to anything upto two
metres high in a matter of weeks but show their famous bright yellow nodding
heads for just a few days. The flowers and foliage quickly die away leaving the
sought-after seeds maturing in the wind and sun.
The French love their Huile
De Tournesol – rather like they love everything home-grown – made from the
sunflower seeds that most Brits think are just budgie food and Americans chew
and spit out at baseball games.
Our region, Poitou-Charente, is the biggest grower of
sunflowers in France, producing nearly a quarter of this vast country’s output.
And that puts us right in the middle of an oil crisis involving the sunflowers
and palm oil, produced mainly in central Africa and south-east Asia.
Palm oil has gathered its critics for both its environmental
and health damage and last November the French national assembly's social
affairs commission rejected a proposal to triple a special tax on palm oil from
EUR100 to EUR300 per tonne.
The so-called 'Nutella amendment' had been initiated by the
French Senate and justified on the grounds of promoting healthier eating and
combating obesity. Palm oil makes up 20 per cent of the famous chocolate
hazelnut spread and Ferrero, the Italian company that makes it, became the
focus for anti-Palm protests. And, yes Ambassador, they make Ferrero Rocher too.
For now that legislation has been parked, but the anti-Palm movement
is gaining even more support leaving my sunflowers even more important to both
France in general and the economy of my little corner in particular.
It’s had the immediate effect of making me forsake Nutella – a favourite with croissants here – and look
more carefully at the ingredients of processed goods.
Not sure it had any effect on the traditional children’s
game on making faces out of the heads – haven’t seen that on Xbox yet! – but then
again the times do change a little slowly round here….
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