Young cattle on the plate of schoolchildren: the call of the Minister of Agriculture in France "Start a dynamic"

"I appeal to local elected officials to bet on this quality meat and have the young bovine reflex when the menus of the canteens are established", said the Minister of Agriculture and Food Julien Denormandie in an interview with AFP. In France, people eat veal and pieces of meat from females, reputed to be more tender, more readily than that of young cattle - males aged 12 to 24 months. This meat of young cattle, a little lighter than beef, is however "consumed in certain French regions such as in the Lyon region, the east of France, a little in the north", notes Caroline Monniot, conjuncture project manager beef at the Livestock Institute (Idele). But half of the meat of young French cattle is exported, primarily to Italy but also to Belgium, Germany and Greece. The regional particularities of consumption in France can be explained by tradition, but also by the presence of Italian (Lyon, Grenoble), German (Alsace, Lorraine) and Belgian (northern) immigrants, explains Ms. Monniot. ...