Report devoted to the reasons for the decrease in red meat consumption for twenty years. Comment on factual images, and infographic images alternating with the reactions of two customers of a butcher shop, interviews of Louis ORENGA, the meat information center, and David KHAYAT, professor of medicine, Head of the cancer department at Pitié Salpétrière Hospital.
A survey conducted by professionals in the meat industry, highlights that the eating habits of the French have changed. They consume more white meat than red meat. Interviews with Christian LE DANTEC, butcher, Paule NATHAN, nutritionist.
Report devoted to the dietary changes of the French in recent decades. The French are increasingly turning to prepared products, eat less fat and sugar. According to Jacques FRICKER, a nutritionist at the Bichat Hospital, this decrease in consumption of fats and sugars is a compensation due to the fact that prepared dishes contain more than basic products. Another change, since the mad cow crisis, the French have consumed 25% less red meat. Dairy products have seen their consumption increase by more than 200%. Children have little to change their eating behavior, preferring fries to vegetables. They eat more and more pastries, sweets and sodas. The number of obese youth is increasing by 70,000 people every year. Interviews with children, by Isabelle MARCHAND, principal of the high school Jacques Amyot.
Report devoted to the desire of some French to no longer include meat in their diet. Meeting with Cassandra who tries to push her mother to stop eating meat. This wave of food modification is still timid in France but advances quickly in the Anglo-Saxon world where this diet is called "No meat". About 10% of English and Germans no longer eat meat compared to 3% of French. Interview with Frédéric BERTHELET, vegan,
Meeting with Frédéric BERTHELET, vegan, and his partner, Marie Christine GRANDBARBE, vegetarian. They refuse to eat meat in the name of animal welfare. Frédéric even excluded milk and eggs from his diet. Interviews with Aymeric CARON, author of "No steak", and René LAPORTE, author of "La viande voit rouge", who alternate arguments for or against the use of cereals to feed livestock or humanity. Doctor Arnaud COCAUL, doctor nutritionist, lists the benefits of a vegetarian diet for health.
Report on the reasons for the decline in meat consumption. Some consumers choose to eat less meat while prioritizing quality. The vegetarian diet is gaining ground, with restaurants offering more and more dishes without meat. Microtrottoir, interviews with Stéphane MILLOUR, artisan butcher, who highlights the importance of sourcing from local breeders, Tristan Charles ROMBAUT, chef, who explains that a dish without meat can be gourmet.
Report on the French who decided to stop eating meat. Meeting with one of them, a father at home, who joined the Movement for the abolition of meat: he is filmed at mealtime with his children, then during a demonstration in Paris. Comment on factual images and video excerpts denouncing the mistreatment of farm animals, alternating with interviews with Brigitte GOTHIERE, spokesperson for L214, journalist Fabrice NICOLINO on this movement,