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This is the MANIFESTE of the french assocation of wine drinkers and people who enjoy life Le Parti d'En Boire.
According to the report of Hervé Chabalier, 1 out of 10 French is sick from alochol, each day 5 people die because of an alcohol related accident...
The French governement took very restrictiv mesures against alcool and specialy wine. This is the reaction of wine drinkers and lovers...
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Have you noticed that a label is placed on all wine bottles (always the wine !)
that says "drinking has serious health rsiks"...
What the labels fail to address are the reasons that push people toward alcoholisme: social distress, low morale, isolation, etc. No distinction is made between strong consumption amongst certain high-consuming youth and non-consuming youth.
Our society, that is trying to organize itself more and more around zero-risk, tries to promote the message that wine is dangerous.
What are we donig to try and warn people about the risks of carbonnated drinks, or sketchy pharmaceutical drinks? Especially dangerous is that this consumption is often associated with malnutrition and over-eating! Who will pick up the bill of a population plagued more and more by obesity? Who will be stronger, the sof drink companies or the wine producers?
ABUSES OF ALL PRODUCTS ARE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR HEALTH, NO MATTER WHAT THE PRODUCT MAY BE: eating to much cheese raises cholesterol, eating too luch suger provokes diabetes, drinking too much tea or coffee can cause cardiac problems... Why do we only target the wine?
Why are the same labels not placed on sugary drinks, candies, hamburger packagins... etc.
N one should ignore the law, but at least the law should be fair. No one should ignore that fact that the abuses of consomption is dangerous.
But why does the law only target wine producers? Life in essense is dangerous. All plants and animals, including humans, are born to die. Speeding causes accidents... but cars don't carry labels that say "driving is dangerous for your health."
Even crossing the street can be fatal... but we don't write that on pedestrian crossings!
Taking a plant can land us in a cemetary...but that's not what is written on your boarding pass!
Stop trying to intimidate people!!! Stop trying to make people live in fear of life! The Avaian Flu, a mortal danger we never stopped hearing about disappeared one day to be replaced by anoter mortal danger the next! When will humans understand that fear blocks their ability to experience happiness? When will humans understand that they are manipulated by fear? Didn't the French re-elect their president for fear of insecurity? Didn't the Americans re-elect their president for fear of terrorism?
FEAR MANIPULATES US, IT STOPS US FROM LIVING. IT IS TIME TO MAKE THIS REALISATION!!!!
For the last 3 years the consomption of wine in France has gone down and we are still unable to talk about a moderate and healthy wine consumption. It's true, many French die each year because of alcohol related diseases, misery, depression, solitude, cancer, Alzheimers, car accidents...and heat waves. How many French die each year because of a regular and moderate consumption of wine?
And in this moment there have never been so many good wines, produced by young, talented, and innovative growers. Drinking wine has almost become something to do in secret.
IT IS TIME TO REACT!!
We are not delinquants or irresponsable. We love wine, we drink it regularly, we're in good health (so say the doctors) and we are not alcoholics!
FOR THOSE WHO TRY TO PROPOSE A NEGATIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE- WE SAY NO! THAT IS NOT THE SOCIETY WE WANT! WE WANT TO BE AWARE. DEFEND THE PLEASURE TO DRINK WINE !
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