Submitted on Sunday 7th February 2016
Rejected on Monday 8th February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Force UK supermarkets to donate unsold food to food banks & charities
Today the news broke of how France is now banning supermarkets from throwing unsold & unwanted food and by law they now have to donate it to food banks and charities.
The increase in poverty caused over 1 million emergency food packs handed out by Trussell Trust food banks in 2014-2015 alone.
Over 170,000 packs were supplied in 2014-2015 than in 2013-2014.
Those figures only cover the 445 food banks in the UK run by the Trussell Trust. But it's not the only organisation running food banks in the UK. There are many independent local initiatives & other providers of emergency food assistance too, E.G soup kitchens or 'Meals on Wheels'. In total the estimated emergency food assistance providers in Britain is 1,500.
It's time the poor are fed by the rich, not the rich fed by the poor.
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