February 22,2021

Andrew Campbell 

The Assistant to Education of the city of Lyon Stéphanie Léger announced on February 15 that a single meal without meat would be served in schools to meet the health protocol. The unique meat-free menu would be imposed from February 22 until the Easter holidays.
However, Lyon’s municipal education assistant stated the lunch menu still included fish and eggs.

Soon opposition strongly denounced Lyon’s meatless lunch menu was a plot from Green Mayor to impose an ideology on school children. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin protested it was an unacceptable insult for French farmers and butchers.

Mayor Gregory Doucet, who was one of Green politicians, defended his decision on keeping the meat-free lunch in schools.  He explained his decision primarily dealing with the coronavirus pandemic that the service of meat-free meal would be streamlined accordingly to help schools keep social distancing in having children two meters apart at lunch.

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