Wednesday morning, the former presidential ecologist Yannick Jadot regretted “the controversies” like that launched by his colleague Sandrine Rousseau on the barbecue “symbol of virility”. He also called on environmentalists to “enlighten” rather than “inflame the debate”.
Former EELV presidential candidate Yannick Jadot regretted Wednesday “the controversies” like that launched by his colleague Sandrine Rousseau on the barbecue “symbol of virility” and called on environmentalists to “enlighten” rather than “ignite the debate “. “I regret these controversies,” replied the Greens MEP on franceinfo, after admitting that he had barbecues this summer, but “also the salad and the vegetables to accompany” the meat.
“Our priority is not to inflame the debate”
According to him, the “French men and women are perfectly aware of climate change and they look at political offers and our responsibility is to shed light on the debate and provide answers, (…) it’s not ‘ignite the debate’. “We have to carry out its major transformations, we have to be very educational and always manage to articulate the major global challenges and the daily life of French men and women,” he added.
He nevertheless advises the French “to lower their meat consumption” because “it is essential from the point of view of health, that’s what all the doctors say, and it is obviously essential from the point of view of the climate and of animal suffering”. But “I am not for the ban on meat, I defend peasant farming,” he said. 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.