At the request of the L214 association, the city of Dukes will no longer offer the specialty during its receptions and official events, as well as in schools. However, one exception will persist.
Succeed with golden ambrosia! After the town halls of Lyon and Bordeaux, the city of Nantes is in turn joining the dance of communities which can no longer see the slightest slice of foie gras. Three weeks before Christmas, and pressed by the animal defense association L214, committed against the force-feeding of geese and ducks, the eco-socialist community led since 2014 by Johanna Rolland (PS) agreed, this November 27, not to no longer serve the hated specialist “during official receptions, festive school meals and municipal events”. With immediate application.
This decision, a vector of savings and easy to implement, “is part of numerous actions put in place aimed at improving and making the municipality responsible for animals and their well-being”, adds – in a letter from the town hall of Nantes that Land Figaro was able to consult – Séverine Figuls, elected from the Animalist Party and delegate for animal welfare. The city of Nantes was questioned on this subject at the beginning of November by L214, after two previous appeals, in 2022 and 2023. The city of Ducs is the third city to have agreed to this measure in 2024, after Pessac and Clermont -Ferrand.
Between “courage” and “inconsistency”
“This is a courageous position, as the end-of-year holidays approach, and which serves as a reminder of the suffering caused by force-feeding,” is delighted for Erwine Goeller, responsible for the “A city for animals” campaign within L214. “The presentation of foie gras in official buffets is not insignificant and also contributes to the saturation of the food environment with products of animal origin”specifies the association also known for its pro-vegan positions.
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The Nantes gesture, however, has its limits. The left-wing town hall does not intend to ban foie gras from its “gourmet gift package”offered each year to the 2,000 most deprived seniors in the community. For the 2024 edition, foie gras will once again find its place, alongside a duck terrine with orange and other delicacies likely to make the nutritionists of Loire-Atlantique faint. A “usual inconsistency of the political postures of our left-wing majority”mocked opposition MP Sophie van Goethem (Les Républicains) on the social network
The measure proposed by L214 was only limited to the public and school environment. “We did not go into the subject of senior packages, because it is more complicated. The measure would be less understood”confirms Erwine Goeller. But, here again, the lines are moving. Freshly converted to the anti-foie-gras faith, the city of Clermont-Ferrand has taken the zealous initiative of pushing the dish not only out of its buffets and school meals, but also out of nursing homes, its municipal restaurants and its packages. seniors. Ways of compromise exist, however. At the initiative of PETA France, the town hall of 8e Lyon district had sent its elders baskets filled with 100% vegetable “fake fat”, for Christmas 2022. An experience which does not appear to have been repeated the following year.
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