The green prescription: a free organic basket per week for pregnant women

During pregnancy, expectant mothers and their unborn children are still too often exposed to endocrine disruptors found in food, packaging, and indoor air.

Measures:

• Every pregnant woman will be able to receive a free weekly basket of organic, locally grown vegetables — no income conditions — on prescription or with a pregnancy certificate.

Guarantees: reduced exposure to endocrine disruptors; healthy, local, unprocessed food; protection for pregnant women and their babies.

Municipal cost-price grocery shops

Many families cannot afford quality food. The result: junk food, deprivation, inequality.

Measures:

• Creation of a municipal purchasing centre + 10 "zero-margin" grocery shops distributed across different neighbourhoods.
• Local, regional, and organic products, purchased directly from farmers, sold at cost price.
• Social pricing for low-income households.

Why: make good food accessible, support producers, reduce food budgets, encourage short supply chains.

Supporting short supply chains and the social economy

Measures:

• Support for food pantries, AMAPs, farmers' shops, local markets, canneries, and social-economy workshops.
• Strengthening the distribution circuit of the Common Food Fund.

Metropolitan Agricultural Agency + 100% organic/local canteens

Today only 30% of school meals are organic/local.

Objective: move towards 100% organic and/or local products in school canteens.

Why: protect children's health, develop short supply chains, support sustainable farming.

End plastic in canteens

The EGAlim law has banned plastic since 2025 — but it is still used in Montpellier. Heat + plastic = microparticles in food, cancer risk, diabetes, heart disease.

Measures:

• Full replacement with stainless steel (or ceramic): durable, safe, compliant with the law.

Food education from after-school care

Children are exposed to junk food from the earliest age.

Measures:

• Sensory discovery workshops, seasonality, nutritional balance.
• "No-soda" challenges.

No-soda day

Raising awareness of the dangers of sugar, mobilising schools, after-school care, neighbourhoods, and associations.

Proposed alternatives: flavoured waters, fresh juices, herbal teas, tap water.