French government officials have a major feud with the mayor of Lyon.
Lyon Mayor Grégory Doucet, a member of the French Green Party who took office in July 2020, is being stabbed for his decision to remove meat from school cafeterias in the interest of simplifying school lunches and promoting more balanced meals in through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, called Doucet on Twitter, saying the policy was an “unacceptable insult to French farmers and butchers”. He also accused the Greens, in general, of making decisions without taking into account the country’s working class with its “scandalous ideology”.
Lyon, France’s third largest city, is often referred to as the capital of French cuisine, famous for its dishes, including stews, terrines or casseroles, often made with meat or offal.
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“Many children often only have the canteen to eat meat,” argued Darmanin, member of La République En Marche! of President Emmanuel Macron! Party.
Julien Denormandie, Minister of Agriculture of France and member of En Marche! party also accused Doucet of “putting ideology on our children’s plate”.
“Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is one of them,” Denormandie wrote.
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Doucet, in turn, countered these accusations, claiming that the new policy would not only speed up school lunches (and promote social distance by doing so), but also promote more sustainable and healthy local food in city schools. .
The Mayor of Lyon, Grégory Doucet, had previously said that the city needs to deal with environmental changes 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 En Marche! party, had “took exactly the same step” in the first months of the pandemic, when I was still in office.
“We did not hear you make these comments to Gérard Collomb,” he wrote.
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Doucet said earlier that more changes are needed to preserve Lyon’s general culinary heritage, and argued against the mass import of meat in favor of promoting local farmers. The city also presented a plan to offer more organic and local food – and to offer students “2 to 4 vegetarian meals a week” – by 2022.
Although meat is off the menu of Lyonnais students, fish and eggs will still be available.
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Lyon, the third largest city in France, is often referred to as the capital of French gastronomy, famous for its dishes, including stews, terrines or casseroles, usually made with meat or offal.