The national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou supported Tuesday the remarks of the deputy Sandrine Rousseau on the barbecue “symbol of virility”, while the communist leader Fabien Roussel was offended that we speak “of the sex of the cutlets”. “Frankly, you’re not going to talk to me about the sex of cutlets anyway!”, He was indignant on Europe 1, believing that “some are making the buzz on top”, in reference to Sandrine Rousseau. On Saturday, during a round table in Grenoble, MP EELV felt that it was necessary “to change mentality so that eating a steak cooked on a barbecue is no longer a symbol of virility”, triggering controversy on social networks.
“For me,” replied Fabien Roussel, who has already had many controversies with the ecofeminist on food issues, “we eat meat according to what we have in our wallet, and not depending on what you have in your panties or in your underpants”. He also invited “everyone to come and share the barbecues and the good meals of the Fête de l’Huma on September 9, 10 and 11”.
“It’s very difficult to get rid of it”, according to Bayou
For his part, Julien Bayou agreed with his colleague MP: “It’s very substantiated. The meat diet is actually more polluting and since men eat more red meat and twice as much charcuterie as women, yes there is a gendered approach to eating behaviors.” “In this subject, there is the question of education in food tastes. People born in the 1970s or 1980s grew up with the idea that meat was needed at every meal. It is very difficult to get rid of it,” he said.
He put forward “a proposal that ecologists are implementing, the vegetarian alternative. Educating children in the canteen, with the right products”, to “be able to see that you can eat meals without meat and have a good feed”.
“Women eat twice as much red meat as men”
On Monday, LFI MP Clémentine Autain has already taken Sandrine Rousseau’s side: “Women eat half as much red meat as men, (…) so there is a gender difference in the way we consume food. meat. And the people who decide to become vegetarian are mostly women,” she argued.