French leftists call to ban giant banquets enjoyed by thousands of revellers claiming they are purposely excluding Muslims and vegetarians

GB News ^ | June 6, 2026 | George Bunn

[MinorityRepublican]

Banquets enjoyed across the French countryside have become a hot political issue after hard-left politicians called for their ban.

The massive events, run by company called Le Canon Français, have proved a hit across rural France with four courses of local cuisine, unlimited wine, and several hours of music and group singing.

However, politicians from the La France Insoumise (LFI) party have accused the events, costing around €81 (£70) per ticket, of turning a blind eye to racist chanting and deliberately excluding Muslims and vegetarians by featuring pork regularly on the menu.

They also pointed to the involvement of conservative investor Pierre-Edouard Stérin as evidence the banquets are used promote the agenda of the hard right.

Emma Fourreau, an LFI member of the European Parliament, told the BBC: "If they were in good faith, Le Canon Français would never have accepted Stérin as an investor. But they did - they took his money."

She added the banquets are "backward-looking – a caricature...They don't represent modern France, which is a place rich in its diversity."

One of the cofounders of Le Canon Français, Pierre-Alexandre de Boisse, hit back at the LFI's claims, adding the company is merely reviving an old French tradition of dining en masse with local fare, something dating back into the depths of medieval history.

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[Leaning Right]

Classical liberals: I don’t like that. Therefore, I will not participate.
Modern leftists: I don’t like that. Therefore, it must be shut down.

True in every country in the West.
And far too often the leftists prevail.
🙁

[GreatRoad]

These Banquets sound like fun!

[Vaquero]

Well. Let them eat cake.

[Vermont Lt]

However, politicians from the La France Insoumise (LFI) party have accused the events, costing around €81 (£70) per ticket, of turning a blind eye to racist chanting and deliberately excluding Muslims and vegetarians by featuring pork regularly on the menu.…
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Ok, I am not really seeing a problem here….

Is anyone putting a gun to someone’s head to attend these things?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "...deliberately excluding Muslims and vegetarians by featuring pork regularly on the menu.…"

Oh, gosh. My bride and I have excluded Muslims and vegetarians, and will savor pork tenderloin form the grill this evening. Horrors!

[Right_Wing_Madman]

These Banquets sound like fun!

It's a great Roman tradition. In the republic and empire, the first day of each month was a pagan holiday, and Romans traditionally held their banquets on the last day of the month, usually lasting until the dawn hours. The banquet was also the only time most Romans ate beef (because it was expensive).

France is still barely a Roman country, and this is why the awful wokesters are so anti-banquet.

[Mercat]

I cooked a Boston butt roast for five hours today on our Traeger. Yum. For those who don’t know - it’s pork.

[FLT-bird]

So what’s the complaint? People eat pork? Well guess what. People in the West have always eaten pork. Its been a staple of the European diet since before the rise of Rome.

[Texas resident]

Politicians from the La France Insoumise (LFI) party have accused the events of turning a blind eye to racist chanting and deliberately excluding Muslims.

Sounds like islam has a lot of influence in France.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Simple fix! Invite the moslems and vegetarians to an old fashioned HOG FRY!

[Texas resident]

Better yet, tell the muslims and veggie tale weenies to get over it and hold their own party.

[Salman]

It's a pork feast. Muslims and vegetarians choose not to participate. They are not "excluded".

I notice you don't see any Jews complaining.

[shaggy eel]

,,, it starts with a crowd like La France Insoumise playing the altruist and if that works, ends up with them deciding how much can go on a fork or a spoon into someone’s mouth. They’re selling out French culture on the basis of being a championship political/cultural traitor.

[chuckee]

They offer alternatives to pork among other things on the menu. Should Muslims attend, the solution is not to order it. Order the salmon and sit at the no pork table with their compadres. Seems they do not want anyone else ordering the pork.