04-22-2015, 07:50 AM
Oh, yes! France is a nation of meat eaters. Tamara and I can't find even a vegetarian restaurant within one hour's drive from here. As for a vegan restaurant, one might as well hope for the moon. There are ways around it in some restaurants. Most offer a very large starter buffet (with a choice of dozens and dozens of vegetable dishes, as well the mandatory meat and fish). Some will allow people to return to the buffet several times instead of having the main course (almost always meat, with fish also available on Fridays). But as we grow almost all of our own food, restaurants are not a big issue for us.
However, for French school children it looks like the current socialist government is going down the road of "We know best" and the individual conscientious objections of parents and children to meat will be totally ignored. The fact that there are so few vegetarians in France (and extremely few vegans) means that their objections will be few in number and hence there is little risk of a major outcry.
It is a sad story. I feel sorry for the vegetarian and vegan children in France. Their life will be virtually impossible, unless their parents can get home at lunchtime to feed them. They will otherwise have to go hungry. It will be no use protesting to the school or canteen staff. Their hands will be tied by central government rules. A terrible tragedy in the making.
However, for French school children it looks like the current socialist government is going down the road of "We know best" and the individual conscientious objections of parents and children to meat will be totally ignored. The fact that there are so few vegetarians in France (and extremely few vegans) means that their objections will be few in number and hence there is little risk of a major outcry.
It is a sad story. I feel sorry for the vegetarian and vegan children in France. Their life will be virtually impossible, unless their parents can get home at lunchtime to feed them. They will otherwise have to go hungry. It will be no use protesting to the school or canteen staff. Their hands will be tied by central government rules. A terrible tragedy in the making.
