Veg on the menu at every children's canteen

 🎯  This summer, Assiettes Végétales is organizing a special campaign. Objective: identify the best possible intervention for the animals!
🚀  Our association is constantly challenging itself to improve. After measuring our impact, the Assiettes Végétales team is leading a research for innovative intervention in France, based on the principles of effective altruism. And we explain it all to you in video !
 ♥️  As always, a big thank you to the captains for helping to fund a better future for animals.

The successes unlocked by Assiettes Végétales and its 💚captains💚 since January, can be seen here!
🏆 23 structures with the "Assiettes Vertes" label, including 3 Crous and 6 municipalities. Since January, 6 new structures have joined the community of label holders.
🚀 Exemplary! Assiettes Végétales has made the veg turn official for Crous de Strasbourg and its 1.4 million meals annually. The Crous offers a daily vegetarian option, chosen by over 30% of students, as well as a weekly veggie day for all.
👨‍⚖️Minister for Public Transformation and Civil Service Stanislas Guerini visited Strasbourg's Crous with our co-founder and congratulated the Crous and Assiettes Végétales on their approach.
 🧒 Lyon, France's 3rd largest city, received the label from our association for its daily veggie offer and its two weekly 100% veggie days. 26,000 primary school pupils are involved!
👑 A giant sets an example! The world's leading contract caterer, Sodexo, has vegetalized the menus in the company restaurant at its French headquarters and received our label.
💥 After accompanying the Yvelines department towards the vegetalization of its menus, Assiettes Végétales has seen the culmination of this partnership. It's official, every day, 10,350 middle school students choose the daily veg option.
⚖️ The "veggie school canteens" advocacy is making great strides. In Paris, our advocacy officer Keyvan has meeted MPs, senators and Ministries to lead them towards the only possible decision: to veganize the diets of young French people.
 📻 A podcast to listen to! Morgane answers questions from the podcast Le dos de la cuillère: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zalBWhMGCQ
💚 Merci aux captains qui soutiennent Assiettes Végétales. We need you: join us!

⁉️ Has the veg offer progressed in university and school canteens in 2023?
👉  The answer in our association's activity report!
😋  Hurry up! Download in just 1 click our report, written with love and clarity, to enjoy now or later, while we're hungry for good news.
💌  https://assiettesvegetales.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AV-rapport-dactivite-2023.pdf 

🕵️‍♂️  The impact of an association can be measured, and it's important. But why? Because our resources and yours are limited, and the stakes are too high for animals and the environment to allow ourselves to act willy-nilly.
💥  In full transparency, Assiettes Végétales therefore shares with you its document measuring the impact of its associative mission and actions, carried out from November to December 2023 by our team and under the guidance of a volunteer external evaluator, who testifies here in video.
Download our impact measurement document by clicking on the following link:
 💌  https://urlz.fr/p1sS  💌  
💚  Thank you to all the captains of Assiettes Végétales, and to those who will be joining us. 💚 

Today, I'd like to give you an update on the progress of menu veganization from mid-April to mid-October. Spoiler: we're not letting up the pressure! 
 

Assiettes Végétales has set itself a wide-ranging mission throughout France. We are working every day to ensure that in our country,40 to 50% of the food on offer in collective restaurants (4 billion meals/year) is vegeta*ian. But how?
1️⃣ By directing legislation towards increasing the frequency and quality of vegetarian meals, and ensuring they are properly enforced.
2️⃣ By influencing the contract catering sector as a whole, spreading good practice through our Green Plates label.
3️⃣ By ensuring that chefs are motivated by, as well as able to achieve, the vegetalization of their menus.

 📆  9 départements, 6 régions and 6 Crous, i.e. 216 canteens organized a Vegan World Tour Week with our association and offered world dishes such as tofu with maple syrup, jimabalaya or Egyptian-style lemon beans.

 

Involving local authorities in charge of school catering
👨‍🍳 Between mid-April and mid-October, we trained 86 chefs-fes from school canteens in plant-based cooking. These chefs are responsible for the daily diet of approximately 41,500 pupils, including primary, middle and high school students.
🤹‍♀️ Between mid-April and mid-October, 41 dieticians were trained in plant-based dietetics in partnership with the ONAV. Objective: to learn how to offer a balanced vegan option, as well as best practices for attracting diners.

 

⚖️ Our advocacy manager took part in a - rejected - proposal for a "vegan canteens" law, and met with the Ministry of Agriculture, Health, deputies and senators to mobilize them on this issue.

 

📣 For the first time, the CNOUS has announced quantified targets for increasing the proportion of vegetarian offerings for students in France. By 2025, the daily intake rate of the vegetarian option will rise to 30%, and to 50% by 2030, representing25 million meals. 

🌱 Thanks to our actions, the Crous de Strasbourg (1.4 million annual meals) offers 30 to 40% of its daily vegetarian offering. For Crous de Grenoble, 75,000 options or half of the offer is vegetarian every day.
👩‍🍳 Assiettes Végétales has trained 26 chef-fes from Crous de Rennes and Bordeaux in vegetarian cooking with Cap Veggie. These chefs-fes serve a total of 18,600 meals every day.

💚 Thanks to the captains who made these advances possible, and to those who will enable the next ones!
👀 See this article in full online here.
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