Ecology: the vegetarian menu of Grenoble schools is not unanimous

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Less meat and less fish on the plate: in some Grenoble schools, the canteen menu becomes vegetarian. Indeed, meat and fish are now optional. An ecological measure according to the town hall, but these vegetarian menus do not always delight schoolchildren.

On the plates that afternoon, in the canteen of the Diderot school in Grenoble (Isere)a Chile without meat. A green, standard and automatic menu which, since the start of the school year, has been vegetarian. “I don’t like meat and I don’t like fish. I am difficult, mejokes a schoolboy. “The green menu, I don’t mind eating it, anyway”adds another.

It is also possible for schoolchildren to eat meat and fish, but for that, you have to ask for it: fish-based blue menu, or red menu which alternates fish and meat. Two options acclaimed by the little ones Grenoble. They are 94% to want it. Having to ask to eat meat or fish is a choice made by the municipality for ecological reasons. “Reducing greenhouse gases, by reducing meat consumption in particular, improving health issues is also essential, and then the animal condition”explains Eric Piollemayor of Grenoble (EELV).

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