Question 3532 — teaching

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Ms. Francesca Pasquini draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to the importance of allowing all school canteens to maintain or implement a daily vegetarian option. 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. Several environmental NGOs brought to the attention of the MP the draft new decree on school catering which could make the daily vegetarian option impossible for canteens which require families and guests to register between holidays, quarterly or annually. But the primary school canteens make extensive use of advance registration. They are organized on a city scale, involving a large number of guests. To better anticipate the organization and limit waste, cities and towns resort to registration at least several weeks in advance, a system that is much rarer in secondary education, as the structures there are smaller. Avoid the vegetarian option canteens that practice registration in advance, this effectively prevents almost all primary canteens from offering a daily vegetarian option, even though they are by far the most involved in this offer on the scale of collective catering. However, vegetarian menus are essential in several respects. First of all, it must be remembered that the Defender of Rights encourages the vegetarian option daily for better access to the canteen and school. In 2019, in the report entitled “A right to the school canteen for all”, she recommended “a reflection on the generalization of vegetarian substitute meals, in all communities where such a measure can be implemented, this making it possible to resolve numerous disputes linked to requests for adaptation of menus”. The CGAAER has shown that, for all types of schools combined, the weekly menu induced a 7% increase in attendance. Reduced meat consumption is also a major public health issue for children. The national nutrition and health program (PNNS), updated in 2019, highlights the need to increase intake of legumes and reduce intake of meat. Indeed, the INCA-3 study (national individual study of food consumption no. 3) highlights that children up to 10 years old consume on average 55 g of protein per day, or between 200 and 400% of the nutritional intake recommended by ANSES. The deployment of the vegetarian option in canteens is also a major lever in the fight against global warming. It should be remembered that, according to ADEME, food represents 24% of the carbon footprint of French households. Each vegetarian meal served allows to save 1.5 kg CO2 equivalent on average compared to a meat meal. Finally, the vegetarian option, thanks to a very high intake rate, now plays an essential role in the fight against inflation in canteens. As a study by Un + Bio shows, the vegetarian menu is cited as the second economic lever after the fight against waste and before the seasonality of products. Savings made thanks to the menu vegetarian serve to introduce more organic and local meat: 20% organic meat versus 50% organic meat for schools serving a daily vegetarian option. She would like to know, in view of all these elements, if the ministry is committed, on the occasion of the new canteen decree, to allowing all canteens, first and second level, to serve a vegetarian option on a daily basis.

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