FYI:
In case you don't have enough else on your plate. And speaking of
plates, this could be one way of putting food on the plates of many
hungry people.
Carl Jarvis
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From: Tristram Stuart with Avaaz <avaaz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 05:03:24 -0400
Subject: Stop the supermarket scandal
To: "carjar82@xxxxxxxxx" <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx>
Dear friends,
It’s a recipe to feed the world -- stop wasting a third of all the
food we grow, and stop tens of millions of children going to bed
hungry each night.
The ingredients are all there -- an amazing movement in France just
won a law making supermarkets give unsold produce to the poor and
homeless. The whole EU is consulting on how to stop supermarkets
cancelling vast orders of food farmers have grown for them. And the UN
is agreeing a goal to halve food waste.
Timing is everything to get this recipe right. We already have a
network of politicians ready to table legislation, we just need to
build a huge push behind them. Let’s race to build a million-strong
petition, submit to the EU consultation before it ends, then work with
allies around the world till we win the laws we need. Add your name,
then send this to everyone you've shared a meal with:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/food_waste_loc/?blJLibb&v=61604
For 15 years I and the organization I founded, Feedback, have battled
the supermarkets’ scandalous levels of waste. In Kenya, we discovered
that up to half the veg grown for Western supermarkets is destroyed.
Supermarkets say the produce is the wrong shape or colour, or cancel
entire orders when they’re ready to ship.
I’ve met day labourers working for less than $2 a day, who say they
don’t get paid when orders are cancelled: they can’t send their
children to school or feed them. Some farmers even have to sign
contracts preventing them from giving out the food for free to those
who need it.
In the UK it is now illegal for supermarkets to mistreat farmers in
these ways. A regulator has powers to receive anonymous complaints
from farmers and fine supermarkets up to 1% of their turnover. Already
the biggest supermarket, Tesco, is under investigation, and we’re
taking the message to other supermarket bosses.
The UN is agreeing a goal to halve global food waste by 2030, and
opportunities are coming thick and fast. The EU is running a
consultation on how to stop supermarkets’ unfair trading practices as
part of a new plan to reduce waste across the continent. The UK and
France have started to show what's possible, and politicians in
Berlin, Brussels, Madrid and Washington DC are already pushing for
change. Now it's up to us to give them a huge public mandate to win
the laws we need to end food waste. Add your name:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/food_waste_loc/?blJLibb&v=61604
Nothing is more central to how we live as a global human race than
finding ways to feed everyone. If we now join together the burgeoning
food waste movement and the Avaaz community around the world, we can
feed the hungry and remove the huge pressure on poor farmers and our
precious environment.
With hope,
Tristram Stuart, with the Feedback and Avaaz teams
MORE INFORMATION:
Putting a stop to global food waste (Feedback)
http://www.feedbackglobal.org/stopdumping
EU supermarkets blamed for Kenya food waste (Al Jazeera)
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/02/2013222152652620999.html
France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity
(The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/22/france-to-force-big-supermarkets-to-give-away-unsold-fo...
France Wants To Forbid Supermarkets To Destroy Unsold Food (Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/22/france-supermarkets-unsold-food_n_7420702.html
5 Amazing Strategies to Eliminate Food Waste and Feed the Hungry (Time)
http://time.com/money/3913386/food-waste-feed-hungry/
EU circular economy consultation launched (Letsrecycle.com)
http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/eu-circular-economy-consultation-launched/
Tesco probed by new regulator (BBC)
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