No meat or fish, one day in the week. In a forum published Wednesday on the site of the World , 500 personalities call the French "green monday". The goal ? Encourage change in their eating behavior. Allain Bougrain-Dubourg is neither vegan nor even vegetarian. The president of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) is nevertheless among the signatories, as Isabelle Adjani, Yann Arthus-Bertrand or Juliette Binoche.
"There are unacceptable types of livestock farming" . "First of all, it is a question of reducing animal suffering, we are witnessing unacceptable types of breeding today", emphasizes this animal lover at the microphone of Matthieu Belliard, on Europe 1, not without denouncing the decisions ambiguous French Parliament: "The Food and Agriculture Act last October has simply re-appealed all measures aimed at animal welfare, such as stopping castrating piglets without anesthesia or grinding live chicks ... is not acceptable, "indignant Allain Bougrain-Dubourg.
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To reduce greenhouse gases. The president of the LPO makes a second dramatic observation: intensive farming is responsible for most of the greenhouse gases on the planet. The production of one kilo of veal cuts out the same amount of greenhouse gases as a 220-kilometer car journey.
"Very important that we can look at each other". Because he is "asking questions", Allain Bougrain-Dubourg has decided to limit its consumption of meat and fish, and invites the French to do the same. "It's not deprivation, it's awareness," he says. "I think it's very important that we can look at each other and ask ourselves what relationship we have with the rest of the living." Studies on the benefits of such a change in diet are legion. One of them, produced for the World Economic Forum and released Thursday, says giving up beef for other sources of protein "could prevent millions of unnecessary deaths a year."