Some cities will no longer offer foie gras during official meals. This is particularly the case in Strasbourg, Alsace, where the town hall, under the leadership of its environmental mayor Jeanne Barseghian, has banned foie gras since taking office in July 2020. A ban in the name of animal welfare. Indeed, for many environmentalists, the technique of force-feeding geese is animal abuse.
And Strasbourg is not the only city to have made this choice. The city of Grenoble, where the mayor is the ecologist Eric Piolle, has also banned foie gras, as has Villeurbanne in the suburbs of Lyon.
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This position of these mayors is absurd even shocking for the cheesemaker Johnny Blanc.
“When a president is elected, it is said to be the president of all French people. I believe that when a mayor is elected, he is the mayor of all the citizens of his city. However, I do not see why my child could not have a piece of foie gras in the canteen for the Christmas meal. By what right is it forbidden? Tomorrow, it will be the goat cheese, then the prime rib, where are we going? Who do they think they are? It’s worse than dictatorships. There is a moment in terms of food, it is not you who will tell me what I will be able to put or not on my plate ”, he denounces.
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⚡️ @Olivier_Truchot : “Today we are in the era of fakes, in Bordeaux we have a fake Christmas tree in glass and steel, and now we want a fake vegetable foie gras” #GGRMC pic.twitter.com/6oigjzx2Em
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“We are entering the era of the false”
For Olivier Truchot, these bans of foie gras, intervene in a basic trend which is the suppression of the animal in our plates.
“Veganism, in the canteen, we say let’s do away with meat, it will be easier. In addition, if we remove the pork it will avoid problems related to religion. So is this a fundamental trend that we will not be able to stop and to which we will have to get used to? ”He asks.
He criticizes, however, the increasingly emerging trend of forgery. Indeed, from now on, the foie gras exists in vegetable version. For Olivier Truchot, we are entering the era of the false. “In Bordeaux, we no longer want fir trees, but we want a fake glass and steel fir tree, there we no longer want foie gras but we do want a fake vegetable foie gras. I think it’s a funny way to do it, ”he says.
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