Over the weekend, I read with interest a story about a new law passed in France that aims to crack down on food waste.
The new law bans supermarkets from throwing away unsold food approaching best-before dates and also from deliberately poisoning products with bleach to stop them being retrieved by people foraging through bins.
Instead the food must be donated to charities or for animal feed.
Dousing discarded food products in bleach to prevent people from being able to consume it? I was shocked: would supermarkets deliberately do that? Surely when the world faces huge food security challenges and there is poverty and hunger in even the wealthiest countries, including our own, we would always redistribute unwanted food, rather than deliberately render it inedible and useless? Wouldn’t we?
Read more here.
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