for Fabien Roussel, “we eat meat according to the wallet”

It is of course necessary to have a political reading of the controversy. Tuesday, on Europe 1, the former communist candidate for the presidential election Fabien Roussel sharply criticized the remarks of the deputy Europe-Ecology The Greens Sandrine Rousseau on the barbecue “symbol of virility”. “Frankly, you’re not going to talk to me about the sex of cutlets anyway!”, He was initially offended, believing that “some make the buzz on top”, spades addressed to Sandrine Rousseau. “For me”, added Fabien Roussel, “we eat meat according to what we have in the wallet, and not according to what we have in our panties or in our underpants”. He then 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 should be remembered that during the campaign Fabien Roussel had already defended an economic vision of meat consumption. “Good wine, good meat, good cheese: that’s French gastronomy. The best way to defend it is to allow the French to have access to it,” he said. What Sandrine Rousseau had answered by defending “couscous”: “Couscous is the favorite dish of the French, my favorite dish, I do not see how it is worse than wine, camembert, sausage” . Fabien Roussel had replied by mounting a photo on Twitter enjoying a couscous with the family.

“The meat diet is more polluting”, explains Julien Bayou

MP LFI Clémentine Autain supported the words of her colleague EELV on Monday. “Sociology explains to us that there is a very strong gender difference” in the relationship to meat, she said on BFMTV. “Women eat half as much red meat as men, (…) so there is a gender difference in the way we consume meat. And the people who decide to become vegetarian are mostly women,” she argued. “If we want to move towards equality, we must indeed tackle virilism,” she continued. The ecologist Julien Bayou has outbid: “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”, explaining that there was a necessary education in food tastes. “People born in the 70s or 80s grew up with the idea that there should be meat at every meal. It’s very difficult to let go.” The Parisian deputy said he was in favor of a “vegetarian alternative” in the canteen.