Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg municipal council advises on vegetarian school meals

In Freiburg daycare centers and elementary schools, the choice of food should be restricted.

Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg municipal council advises on vegetarian school meals

In Freiburg daycare centers and elementary schools, the choice of food should be restricted. The future standard menu should be vegetarian. In the southern Baden metropolis, not everyone appreciates it.

Freiburg (dpa / lsw) - In Freiburg, children in municipal daycare centers and elementary schools should only get a vegetarian meal from the coming school year. The Freiburg municipal council wants to discuss a corresponding regulation, as can be seen from the invitation to the meeting on (today) Tuesday (4 p.m.). In addition, the prices for school meals are to be gradually increased from the 2023/24 school year.

More than 500,000 lunches are served in the canteens of Freiburg schools every year. With the reduction to just one menu line, the administrative effort should decrease, as stated in a template for the meeting. So far there have been two types of food, with meat and fish also being served. "Since the intersection of different eating habits is a vegetarian offer, the menu line should be vegetarian in the future," it says now. In the longer term, it is possible to apply the regulation to secondary schools.

There was already criticism in the city parliament. City councilor Franco Orlando from the parliamentary group of the FDP and BFF (Bürger für Freiburg), for example, explained that the city leaders were "meat consumption a thorn in their side". It was also said that it was not certain that the proposal would be accepted directly as planned.

In the canteens of the city administration, things are already "meat-sensitive" and regional, as the city reported in a brochure on the ambitious sustainability policy of the southern Baden municipality.