Dear Canada!
Please help make the food wastage stop! Please print this and have everyone you know and meet sign it! $31 Billion a year of perfectly good food goes to waste. We can follow countries like France and stop this absurdity from continuing. With the food we save from landfills we can feed so many people who are in need …
HELP CHANGE THE LAWS ON CANADIAN
FOOD WASTAGE
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$31 Billion a year of perfectly good food goes to waste. We can follow countries like France and stop this absurdity from continuing. Last year, France passed a new law forbidding supermarkets from throwing out and deliberately destroying food that can still be eaten. Instead, supermarkets must donate all unsold food products to local organizations.
According to the UN, nearly a third of all food produced globally is wasted -that’s 1.2 billion tons of wasted food a year. North America wastes the most food, at almost 660 pounds per person per year. In Canada, while thousands of people struggle daily to feed their families and food banks desperately search for enough food to feed them. $31 billion worth of food is wasted every year?
This petition urges the Government of Canada to:
► Bar supermarkets from throwing out and intentionally destroying unsold, still edible food
► Require supermarkets to donate goods no longer fit for sale, to be used as animal feed or compost
► Require supermarkets to donate goods that have been wrongfully packaged or damaged, but that remain edible
The ultimate fact driving this petition is that. Canadians of all ages suffer from hunger on a daily basis. They deserve better. Addressing the absurd levels of waste in Canadian supermarkets is the first step to restructuring our national food policy and ensuring a smarter, more sustainable future for all Canadians.
In France, this new law all began with a petition that gained 200,000 signatures. Feed-it-Forward’s goal is to gain 100,000+ signatures and attract national media attention while developing concrete policy proposals and developing a pilot project.
Sign Petition Now
Right now, we need your voice and your support. Please sign this petition to help us bring this law to Canada!
(Only Canadian addresses and signatures are accepted at this time) Please send signatures to:
Feed it Forward
225 The East Mall suit 1634
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M9B 0A9