Retailers will be obliged to give to the poor unrealized products – PROVED

A member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights Council (HRC) Jan Lantratova Ministry of Industry has proposed to develop a bill that would ban shops and businesses catering to throw away unsold products, write «Izvestia” . Unsold food is offered to donate charities or give livestock farmers. However, doctors, businessmen and sociologists questioned the idea of ​​humanity.

As an argument in defense of his proposal Lantratova refers to the data of Rosstat. According to statistics, in 2013 in Russia were sent to landfill nearly 2 billion tons of unsold products. Lantratova such irrationality offers eliminate by developing a ban on the release of edible products of shops and restaurants. Salvation from dumpster food will prevent starvation among the poor, the disabled, the unemployed and pensioners. There is also an alternative proposal: food waste can be given to farmers to feed livestock.

So is offered to kill two birds with one stone: improve the ecological situation in the city and help charity. Especially in Europe, such a scheme practiced for a long time. But domestic entrepreneurs reacted to the proposal Lantratova without enthusiasm. President of the National Trade Association Vadim Zuikov stressed that such a bill would be contrary to morality seems simply dangerous: spoiled food can be poisoned. In addition, according to Zuikova modern market situation freed from retailers surplus shops buy goods as much as they can sell.

But farmers and philanthropists Lantratova supported the idea: the representatives of farming organizations and charities said they were would welcome any products. The head of the Orthodox network homes diligence “Noah” Yemelyan Sosinskii says that products with expired food you can eat, because even among the tainted food is very small percentage of that which in fact can be dangerous to health. Do not see anything unethical Sosinskii to give such food to the homeless, he drew attention to the fact that most of them do not eat anything at all, and would be delighted, even such donations.