For Easter, make your confinement greedy by decorating it with goose confit, duck breast and foie gras. It's easy to prepare, easy to store. The advice, rather in "we beg you" mode, comes from producers faced with a huge drop in sales since the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic.
According to the press release issued on Thursday by the Interprofessional Committee of Palmipeds with Foie Gras (Cifog), "the closure of restaurants, less emphasis on products in mass distribution and the closure of markets" add to the export halt to cause sales plummet.
The “half-cooked” shunned and 100,000 jobs threatened
The industry estimates that SMEs and producers have seen their sales, all products combined, melt by around 30% since the start of containment. Semi-cooked foie gras dropped by 50% in supermarkets for the week of March 29 alone.
Cifog calls for the solidarity of large food stores to promote their products and that of consumers to buy them. It goes, he assures, of the survival of "100,000 direct and indirect jobs".
Currently, 90% of the foie gras consumed in France is also produced there. And for producers in the southwest, the Covid-19 crisis comes at a time when they were barely recovering from the mass slaughterings caused by avian flu in 2016-2017.
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