The race to plant-based food: How the Paris Olympics became the most vegan ever [from BBC]

The Paris Olympics’ pledged to double the amount of plant-based food on offer. But prioritising planetary health alongside sporting prowess has involved balancing different interests.

Music, romance and regicide: the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was a riot of French passions. Among them was food, with a naked Dionysus, the Greek God of wine and festivity, sprawled with Bacchanalian abandon among a pile of produce. Another was revolution, taking the form of a gory Marie Antoinette, the beheaded 18th-Century queen, peering down from her historic former prison.

Recently however, these two French themes – of food and political fury – have combined, and dietary choices have become a source of intense and growing protest.

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