Children in the canteen (illustrative image).
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On the menu, lentil dahl or bulgur nuggets.
More and more school canteens are now providing vegetarian menus to children, reveals Greenpeace by publishing an investigation on the subject on Tuesday.
But progress remains to be made.
"74% of schoolchildren and schoolgirls have the opportunity to eat vegetarian every week", according to the association for the defense of the environment, which salutes the efforts of communities.
On the menu: increasingly diversified dishes, where a majority of omelets were served in the past.
Since the entry into force of the Egalim law in 2019, all public and private establishments must offer a vegetarian menu per week to their students.
But not all of them do.
High schools and colleges lagging behind
Greenpeace notes "more worrying" results in colleges and high schools, with 41% of colleges and 48% of high schools that have not set up this experiment provided for by law.
In comparison, 1 in 10 menus are vegetarian in these establishments, against 1 su 4 in the primary.
Result: less diversity of meals and less organic.
Greenpeace calls for action to be taken for more vegetarian menus in these establishments, for children, and for the climate: “while 24% of greenhouse gases emitted by France are due to the production of our food and in the first place in animal husbandry, it is crucial to reduce our overall meat consumption.
Each year, 12 million students from kindergarten to high school eat more than a billion meals in the canteen.
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