Officials in the French government have a big meat at the mayor of Lyon.
Lyon Mayor Grégory Doucet, a member of the French Green Party who took office in July 2020, is distorted over his decision to remove meat from school cafeterias for the sake of streamlining lunch and promoting more balanced meals amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, called Doucet on Twitter, claiming the policy was an “unacceptable insult to French farmers and butchers”. He accuses the Greens in general of making decisions without considering the country’s working class with their ‘scandalous ideology’.
Lyon, the third largest city in France, is often called the capital of French gastronomy, known for its dishes, including stews, terrines or casseroles often made with meat or offal.
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“A lot of kids often just go to the canteen to eat meat,” Darmanin argued, a member of La République En Marche by President Emmanuel Macron! party.
Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture of France and a fellow member of the En Marche! party, Doucet also accused him of ‘putting ideology on our children’s boards’.
“Let’s give them just what they need to grow well. Meat is one of them,” Denormandie wrote.
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Doucet, meanwhile, has backed down on such accusations, claiming that the new policy will not only speed up lunch for the school (and thus promote social distance), but also promote more sustainable, local and healthy food in the city’s schools.
Lyon Mayor Grégory Doucet had earlier claimed that the city needed to address environmental change in order to preserve its culinary heritage.
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He also argued that Gérard Collomb, the former mayor of the city and a member of the En Marche! party, had “taken exactly the same size” in the first months of the pandemic, when he was still in office.
“We have not heard you make these remarks to Gérard Collomb,” he wrote.
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Doucet has previously said that further change is needed to preserve Lyon’s overall culinary heritage, and has argued against mass meat imports in favor of promoting local farmers. The city has also drawn up a plan to offer more organic and local food – and to offer school children “2 to 4 vegetarian meals a week” by 2022.
Despite the fact that meat from Lyonnais school children is off the menu, there are still fish and eggs available.
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Lyon, the third largest city in France, is often called the capital of French gastronomy, known for its dishes, including stews, terrines or casseroles, often made with meat or offal.