"The objective is 40% vegetarian food in Parisian collective catering", Audrey Pulvar explained the intentions of the Paris City Hall to AFP journalists.
"Reducing the City's carbon footprint", "better respecting the diversity of diets", these are the objectives of the plan presented by Anne Hidalgo's assistant.
However, in the mayor's own clan, environmentalists do not hide their disappointment.
While this plan must be carried out by 2027, they demanded that this measure be put in place from the beginning of 2023 and a "precise timetable for the implementation of the plan".
Conciliatory, Audrey Pulvar explains to them that among the 21 managers of these 1,300 Parisian canteens (school but also solidarity restaurants, nursing homes, city staff, etc.) which serve 30 million meals a year, "not all are at the same level of advancement," says Ms. Pulvar.
However, she agrees with what the Greens have said, “The sooner (managers) get there, the better.
The savings made by removing meat from the menu should, according to the plan, allow managers to buy "better quality French meat."
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To achieve the canteen's decarbonization objective, the canteen wants to go from 53% of organic and sustainable food used today in its collective catering to 100% in 2027. By this same deadline, 50% of the products will have to be produced less than 250 km from the capital, whereas today, "the average is 650 km".
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