tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post2038379575338966004..comments2024-03-27T19:00:02.499-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: France makes supermarkets give unused products to food banks rather than trashing itUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-25848180884865705112016-02-06T10:22:33.969-05:002016-02-06T10:22:33.969-05:00Good for them! I have long been a believer in doin...Good for them! I have long been a believer in doing that. I once had a conversation with a grocery store employee who talked with me about this very issue....how any produce with the slightest blemish would be relegated to the dumpster in the chain linked area (to keep people from dumpster diving for food). 'Sell by' labels do not mean the item is bad, but out it goes. My husband loves a particular bakery bread at our local store. The bin was empty, but there was a stack of loaves behind the counter. The employee apologized for not being able to let me go ahead and get one. They were being thrown out because the store policy required they be sold within 3 days. At home, I may have a loaf of bread in the breadbox for 5-6 days. Google how much food is thrown out in the US (and obviously it isn't just us if France is the first country to ban the practice). I just did and read that 30-40% of our food supply is wasted. How often have you heard it be said that we just don't have enough food to feed the number of people in the world? Isn't that one of the reasons the GMO producers claim that we must have them? Google Singing Frogs Farm (it's in Sebasopol, CA)....an awesome example of sustainable farming. But I digress... Good for France! Let's hope their ban is contagious.BeamMeUphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03065413851576270432noreply@blogger.com