Statutory discard-stop for supermarkets remains necessary
Valentin Thurn, speaker for the campaign “Leere Tonne” replies: “we are sticking to our request for a statutory regulation against food wastage. As long as the retail trade takes individual measures on a voluntary basis, nothing will change substantially about the situation. Now already, individual traders justify their excess supply until closing time by looking to the competition – this can only be changed by binding rules for all.
The campaign Leere Tonne, stated at the start of the summer break, it could gain 25,000 signatures in under two months. Thurn: “the Belgian city Herstal is a true pioneer when it comes to strict demands for the supermarkets. Already in 2013, she tied the local operating license to the proof of success when giving away unsold yet still edible food products. After half a year of good experiences, the whole region of Wallonia decided to make it a law.”
Louise Duhan of Slow Food Youth complements: “a statutory discard-stop is a necessary first step. Lately however, we are not coming around to talk about the backgrounds of the wastage. In this it is about the overproduction and the producer prices, which are too low. We need the agricultural change and a different interchange of producers, traders as well as consumers.”
The constitutional court of France has especially criticised that multiple complementary proposals in the legislative process were faulty; in part they did not have direct bearing on the goal of the energy transition law.
Source: www.leeretonne.de