“There are snails on her plate. Now get them out of here before she sees them! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can’t even see the food!”
Posted on 02/23/2021 12:48:54 PM PST by Olog-hai
By taking meat off the menu at school canteens, the ecologist mayor of one of France’s most famously gastronomic cities has kicked up a storm of protest and debate as the country increasingly questions the environmental costs of its meaty dietary habits.
Children in Lyon who were regularly offered such choices as beef and chicken in rich sauces found their meat option missing this week when they returned from school holidays. In its place: a meatless four-course meal that Lyon City Hall says will be quicker and easier to serve to children who, because of the coronavirus pandemic, must be kept apart during lunch to avoid infections.
City Hall insists that the meatless meals are temporary and that school canteens will again offer meat options when social distancing rules are relaxed and children once again have more time to dwell on their food choices and to eat. […]
Still, farmers saw red. Some drove farm vehicles, cows and goats in protest on Monday into Lyon, which is fiercely proud of its rich restaurant culture and signature dishes, many of them meaty.
Protesters’ banners and placards extolled meat-eating, proclaiming “meat from our fields = a healthy child” and “Stopping meat is a guarantee of weakness against coronaviruses to come.” …
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Can you say protein?
Why not just feed ‘em cheese.
Do snails count as ‘meat’?.........................
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I’ll wait until next time....................
It’s temporary,they’ll survive.
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Let them eat cake!
Let them drink soybeans.
A carbo diet is a slave diet. It ensures that a slave will have enough energy to work but not enough to escape.
The school says this is only for during social distancing restrictions. What if those restrictions don’t go away for the next 15 years?
Could be worse! For instance, they could adopt The Wookies public school menus.
“Why not just feed ‘em cheese.”
Dairy cows produce methane too.
I grew up in upstate New York. The place had lots of dairy cows. It never stopped the place from having cold winters.
Just as soon as they, “flatten the curve” two weeks, tops.
I wonder what Mayor Doucet had for lunch the day this article was written. The author didn't think to ask him for some strange reason.
Will they just kill them and have them go to waste??
They can apprendre à coder.
“There are snails on her plate. Now get them out of here before she sees them! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can’t even see the food!”
I live in NYS, too.
From from what I’ve seen, pols produce more than moos.
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