The 2024 Paris Olympics has failed in its scheme to impose its anti-meat agenda on the athletes competing in the events who rely on animal protein to fuel their abilities.
The initial “Food Vision” was to deny animal protein to the Olympics’ presumed captive audience at Olympics Village, in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the 2024 competition, EuroNews explains:
“The Paris 2024 Food Vision document aimed to serve 13 million meals during the Games to the athletes featuring locally sourced, seasonal food with reduced animal protein to lower the Games' carbon footprint compared to the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics.”
“Environmentally-conscious Paris 2024 officials determined 60 per cent of the food served at the village would be vegan, as they promised to halve the carbon footprint of each meal,” SkyNews reports.
However, the Paris Olympics underestimated the determination of the visiting teams. British athletes flew in an additional chef to meet their needs. Others, such as the German men’s hockey team, the CEO of the UK Olympic Association and the International Meat Secretariat loudly voiced their objections.
“The Australia delegation, with 460 athletes, came prepared by bringing with them more than three tons of tuna, 10,000 muesli bars and 2,400 meat pies, as well as three baristas who expect to make more 20,000 shots of coffee during the Games,” Reuters reports.
“Athletes don’t want fake meat,” author and nutrition journalist Nina Teicholz declared in a social media post. “They know that complete proteins — crucial for sports performance — come from animal foods.”
Ultimately, the Olympic ideologues relented. As a result of the backlash, Sodexo Live!, the French company catering the Games, decided to increase the quantities of sources of popular meat proteins, such as eggs, chicken and beef.
“There has been a reinforcement in animal proteins, with 700 kilos of eggs and a ton of meat, to meet the demands of the athletes, who we place at the heart of the Paris 2024 experience,” Paris Olympics CEO Etienne Thobois told reporters at a press event.