Politics when you hold us… By contradicting his Minister of Health, Christophe Castaner will probably take the voice of winegrowers and alcoholics, but provoke the anger of the doctors who fight daily against alcoholism.
Agnès Buzyn is certainly Minister of Health, but she remains above all a doctor and an excellent one besides. By declaring in early February that wine was “an alcohol like any other”, she was only telling an apparently inconvenient truth. However, it is not the alcohol content of the drink that counts but the quantity of alcohol consumed. The damage of a glass of wine, half a beer or a dose of whiskey is the same since it gives the body the same dose of alcohol. In sum, this damage is proportional to the quantity, whatever the drink.
Castaner takes up the old hackneyed arguments that led, a few years ago, professors of medicine – from wine regions of course – to extol the therapeutic virtues of wine. Quickly put back in place by their colleagues.
The people of Bordeaux have done more by making their regional wine a drug against cholesterol. Here it is the Burgundians who took it upon themselves to put them back in their place … That we drink wine culturally is a fact. To hide behind health arguments, to justify and promote it, is a crime. Alcohol and tobacco remain the two big killers on the planet. And probably, unfortunately, still for years to come. With a cost for society, which greatly exceeds the taxes collected and the jobs threatened.
So in the name of electoralism, denying the words of his minister (who was only doing his job) is an act untrustworthy. Confidence that this government is currently asking voters.
And while he is there, because the voters of the North are also very numerous, Christophe Castaner should launch out in the defense of beer; and make it an excellent means of rehydration in the elderly or sunny. But it is true that it is the voices of the Alpes de Haute Provence that interests him. He should have added pastis to his prescription!
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