like Strasbourg, around twenty cities want to offer organic fruits and vegetables to pregnant women

In Strasbourg, pregnant women receive organic fruits and vegetables every week. An initiative that several municipalities want to duplicate. A public health issue, and a political choice.

We call it the “green prescription”, because you need a simple prescription from your doctor or midwife to receive this basket of three kilos of organic fruits and vegetables, therefore, in season, every week, without paying anything. at all, for two to seven months depending on your income. An experiment launched in November 2022 by the ecological city of Strasbourg, extended in 2024, which is of interest to other left-wing municipalities.

The objective is to encourage people to change their habits, because once you have tasted the pumpkin from the market gardener next door, it is difficult to go back for a canned ratatouille. Eating better when you are pregnant helps ensure your child’s healthy health. These baskets create around ten jobs to prepare them and help local organic farmers, but the number one objective is to fight against exposure to indoctrinal disruptors.

Hence the target audience: pregnant women, unborn children… Those most exposed to these disruptors which modify the hormonal system and can cause cancer and growth disorders. We find these disruptors everywhere, in lots of products, in our fridge, our cupboard, in our little ones’ toy boxes. Moreover, the municipality is planning training for the beneficiaries of the basket, in order to show them alternatives that can replace the spray full of bleach with vinegar or Marseille soap.

To extend it to 1,500 women, still in Strasbourg, it costs 640,000 euros per year. The sum seems significant, but defenders of the initiative assure that it is nothing compared to the health savings behind it. The environmentalist deputy Sandra Regol has just resubmitted, at the beginning of October, a text to the National Assembly to generalize the system throughout the country. It also provides for an amendment to the budget.

However, it is difficult to imagine the government going on this when we see the debt, the savings to be made which have just been presented. At the local level, however, around twenty cities are very interested in this initiative. This is the case of Paris, Rennes, La Rochelle, Lyon, Lons-le-Saunier and Trappes, municipalities led by left-wing, environmentalist elected officials, which shows that this type of project is above all a political choice!