Good News For The Hungry People Of France...

It's good news for the many hungry folk in France with a new law being passed that prevents supermarkets and grocery stores from disposing of food fit to eat, even though the label may show it to be close to its best before date.
If it still appears safe to eat, the food must be donated to charity and if it's not safe for human consumption, it must be made available to farmers to use as animal feed or compost.
For the many who forage for food in dumpster bins, their lives have just become easier.
And thanks and congratulations must go to Arash Derambarsh, a local municipal councilor in Courbevoie, north west of Paris whose campaign against food waste led to the new law being passed. He's hoping similar legislation
can be passed globally.
The average French citizen wastes around thirty kg or sixty five pounds of food a year.
The average American throws away twenty percent of all food they buy. And in 2012, households in the United Kingdom threw away seven million tonnes of food.
We are what we eat.
Or are we what we throw away...

The World Wastes Nearly Half The Food It Produces. And People Starve...

We are a world of seven billion people.
We produce some four billion tonnes of food each year. And people starve.
We waste over 1.3 billion tonnes of food each year. And people starve.
Industrialised nations waste around  three hundred million tonnes of food because producers, retailers and consumers discard food that is still fit for consumption.
And people starve.
That three hundred million tonnes is more than is produced in Africa and is enough to feed the 830 million people who are starving worldwide.
The cost of wasted food in the US is around one trillion dollars. And people starve.
In the UK, thirty percent of vegetable crops are not harvested because their appearance doesn't meet the exacting demands of consumers.
And people starve.
Half the food purchased in Europe and the US is thrown away. And people starve.
Around 500 billion cubic litres of one of the world's most valuable resources, water, is used to grow crops that never reach the consumer or the hungry.
And people starve...