Elected environmentalists are calling for this measure to be put in place from the start of 2023 and are asking for a “precise schedule for implementing the plan».
The City of Paris wants to impose two vegetarian meals a week and a vegetarian alternative for the other three days in its collective restaurants by 2027, a horizon too distant for the environmental allies of the mayor PS Anne Hidalgo. “The objective is 40% vegetarian food in Parisian collective catering“, explained to AFP the assistant (PS and relatives) for sustainable food, Audrey Pulvar, who must present her plan for the next five years on Tuesday.
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Among the 21 managers of these 1,300 Parisian canteens (schools but also solidarity restaurants, nursing homes, city staff, etc.) which serve 30 million meals a year, “not all are at the same level of advancement“, explains Audrey Pulvar. Elected environmentalists are calling for this measure to be put in place from the start of 2023 and are asking for a “precise schedule for implementing the plan». «The sooner (managers) get there, the better“, replies the former journalist for whom the objective of this measure is threefold: “reduce the City’s carbon footprint», «better respect the diversity of diets» et «free up financial leeway so that managers can buy better quality food for other meat meals».
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For the former candidate of the PS in the regional elections, the savings made with less recourse to meat can indeed make it possible to “buy better quality French meat“. The town hall also wants to go from 53% of organic and sustainable food used today in its collective catering – against 8% in 2008 – to 100% in 2027, including 50% produced less than 250 km from the capital.
«Today, the average is 650 km», Underlines Audrey Pulvar who wants «at a time» short circuits – few steps between the producer and the consumer – and local circuits – little distance. “The challenge is to make Ile-de-France a nourishing landthanks to the AgriParis action, future operator of the City to structure these agricultural sectors and which the deputy hopes to see launched in 2023. As for the imports of bananas and chocolate, impossible to produce in the north of France, they will have to all come from fair trade, assures the town hall.
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