Boris Tavernier, Green Party MP: “Eating better is a question of social justice and solidarity”
Boris Tavernier is co-founder of VRAC, an association created in 2013 that fights against food insecurity in working-class neighborhoods. He was elected MP for the 2nd constituency of the Rhône in July 2024, affiliated with the Ecologists party. He defends an egalitarian, humanist, and gourmet vision of society.
You defend everyone's right to eat well. Where does your commitment come from?I was born into a working-class environment in Pas-de-Calais, a village marked by poverty resulting from deindustrialization. After college in Arras and odd jobs in Lyon, I led my first strike in a toy store and got fired. My friends Axel Hernandez and Jérôme Duparc were involved in the anti-globalization movement, and with them, I made a pilgrimage by bike to Millau to see the ruins of the McDonald's destroyed by José Bové in 1999. This inspired us to create a cooperative bar-restaurant, De l'autre côté du pont: a joyful haunt of activists who defended organic and accessible peasant agriculture. We cooked there, organized debates, screenings, concerts. It was a political, community-based, and culinary school. I stayed there for ten years.
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