"What could be better than eating PDO cheese to refresh your mind?" In the gloom of confinement, Michel Lacoste, head of Cnaol, the inter-union of appellations of French dairy origin, tries to keep morale. Difficult, because the closure of the 8,000 markets in France threw a chill on many food chains selling in short circuits. Like PDO cheeses, which sell 18% of their volumes on outdoor stalls. Added to this is the closing of many shelves in the supermarket cup, "and the situation becomes very critical," says the manager . For some cheeses, such as Brie de Meaux, which do not keep, we start to throw away products. It is catastrophic . We are impoverishing the French food supply. ” Ditto for fresh fruits and vegetables, where 11% of the volumes usually find takers on the markets. Or the fishmongers: the fishermen are already immobilized at the port, for lack of outlets.
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