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France’s New “Municipal Farmers”
Nearly four billion meals are dished out every year in France’s school cafeterias and childcare kitchens. Catering companies such as Sodexo currently dominate this market, but, more often than not, the meals have little nutritional value and the companies fail to factor in environmental concerns. A number of towns in France are challenging such a system by growing their own produce for their own school cafeterias.
