Eliminate food waste

The example of Spain on this issue

While millions of people are barely able to feed themselves, rich countries waste 40% of their food purchases. To put this in perspective, it is as if we burned the equivalent of Russia's agricultural production in fields and slaughtered 12 million animals without eating them. Frightening data that reminds us that the problem of nutrition in the world is not that there is not enough food but rather that it is poorly distributed.

Madrid-based activist and scientist Diego Garcia-Vega made a capsule for Brut in his native language (with French subtitles and narration) to talk about the Spanish case.

In fact, the country is one of the first in the West to regulate on the issue. It has passed a law allowing fines of up to 60,000 euros for restaurants and hotels that do not comply with the new rules. For example, they will have to publicly state how much food is thrown away each year, offer discounts on soon-to-be-expired products, and offer customers the opportunity to take away their leftovers. If they don't want to, then they will have to turn them into juice or jam or be composted.

However, as the young man points out, supermarkets are not yet affected by this law even though they participate greatly in waste. They force consumers to buy more fruit or vegetables than they need. Much of it ends up in the household garbage. They do this because right now they buy in bulk and it's cheaper to offer more at once.

So the next logical step would be to regulate the big box industry so that these images of trash containers full of often still-consumable food disappear.

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