Question 3327 — hotel and catering

Summary

Ms. Francesca Pasquini draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to the absolute urgency of combining nutritional recommendations and the fight against global warming in school canteens. This question arises in a strategic period since the National Council for Collective Catering (CNRC) has just submitted its work to the ministry in order to allow the rewriting of decree no. 2011-1227 of September 30, 2011 relating to the nutritional quality of meals served as part of school catering. A sustainable meal must be adequate for children, taking into account their habits and tastes, at an affordable and fair price for producers and respectful of the environment. However, during the work of the NRC, the arbitrations of frequencies and weights of foods were systematically made in favor of health to the detriment of the fight against global warming. The two topics were treated as two incompatible points of view. The result is dramatic: the dietary guidelines that we are about to impose on school canteens give far too much importance to products of animal origin and to meat in the first place. To achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, the national low-carbon strategy (SNBC) involves France to reduce emissions from its agricultural sector by 46% by 2050. Meat and dairy products represent 85% of French food emissions (at the agricultural stage): the evolution of diets therefore consists primarily of reducing the consumption of products of animal origin. The challenge is not to eliminate their consumption but to moderate it by favoring quality products from more sustainable while reducing the rate of imported meat. In this context we could have expected that the work of the NRC concerning school canteens would result in more ambitious regulation of animal products, in particular by limiting their frequency and their weight. However, there has been no progress compared to the previous decree dating from 2011. It would have been welcome if the work supervised by Nicole had been taken into account Darmon, from INRAE. They conclude that it is possible to combine health and environmental requirements by the following means: increasing the number of vegetarian meals from four to twelve out of twenty, favoring non-ruminant meats and applying the existing rules on the frequency of serving dishes with the exception of that requiring the serving of ruminant meat at least four times out of twenty meals. This could reduce the impact environmental impact of meals currently served in French canteens by 50% without altering their nutritional quality. This study must be compared to the latest ANSES opinion on the frequency of vegetarian menus in school canteens in which the agency states that it is not necessary to limit the frequency of vegetarian menus. Also, she would like to know if the Government is committed to taking into account the climate emergency by proposing a more ambitious decree on reducing meat consumption in school canteens.

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