The news will add fuel to the fire of an already heated controversy.
While the announcement of the ecologist town hall of Lyon to remove meat from the school canteen has sparked debate for several days within the government, the deputy of the town hall of Paris in charge of Health, Anne Souyris, announces on BFMTV that this track is being studied in the canteens of schools in the capital.
In Lyon as in Paris, the argument used to justify the choice of a single menu without meat is the simplification of the service, in a sanitary framework difficult to maintain in the canteens at the time of the Covid-19.
In Lyon, the school canteen, which provides meals for some 29,000 children, has imposed the meatless menu since Monday.
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If Anne Souyris also uses this argument for Paris, the assistant also evokes a use over a longer time, which would allow "in the long term, to give better quality alternatives" to children who have lunch in the canteen.
A new protocol could come into force after the school holidays, that is to say in a week for the capital.
Its application will however be decided at the level of the districts and not of the central town hall, specifies the deputy.
A "scandalous ideology" according to Darmanin
"We are considering lots of solutions in Paris and this is part of the solutions we are considering for practical reasons," confirms the assistant in charge of Health.
“The idea is to say
we should eat less meat, but eat better in a more local way, more respectful of the environment
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The news of a unique meatless menu is leaping into the government on Monday.
The Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, castigates "a scandalous ideology" and a "moralist and elitist policy" of environmentalists, which according to him "excludes the popular classes".
The Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, for his part seized the prefecture of the Rhône, which will have to decide on the legitimacy of the development of a menu without meat.