Here's a Last Week Tonight on wasted food.
The grossest part is that supermarkets actively ruin perfectly fine food, rather than let it someone take it. I know it's probably for liability reasons, but it's still terrible. It's great that France has passed the law, and it's great it's unanimous. I feel like given our House, it would still fail for some stupid reason. Large fashion chains do this as well, they shred unsold clothes rather than donate them to thrift stores.
AIHMHB, my father used to bring home unused food from a supermarket near his office. I was young enough to not really notice, but one thing in particular I remember in particular were Cadbury eggs. We thought the insides were always supposed to be kind of dried up, it wasn't until I was an adult that I ate a fresh one.
This is a good thing. How can we go about doing this thing?
I agree. I mean, I'm not sure that dried-up Cadbury Eggs are great, but they have to be better than the fresh ones. Those taste like diabetes.
Mmmm....diabetes. Now that I think about it, how long does a Cadbury egg have to sit there before it's past it's expiration date? 1 year? 5 years? I imagine those things are like Twinkies.
There's some charity named after a saint (can't remember who, google did not feel like helping) that takes "unsellable" fresh produce (bruised, just ugly, whatever) and donates it to food banks - not sure if they pay farmers or just accept donations.
I'm not sure what one that might be. But if you ever manage a food bank and somebody from "saint urple's" offers to bring in some food, you should demure.
Aha: Society of St. Andrew. http://arcd.org/index2.php/2015/05/18/featured-non-profit-society-of-st-andrew/