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May 30th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
A member of the Russian presidential council for Human Rights has asked the government to prepare a bill that would ban retailers from turning unsold food into waste, and order them to send it to farms or charity organizations.
Yana Lantratova sent the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade a
letter in which she claimed the ban on destroying unsold
foodstuffs would help socially unprotected groups, and also
support farmers who would spend less on fodder.
In the letter, quoted by the Izvestia daily on Friday, the
activist quoted the Russian state statistics agency as saying
that in 2013 Russian companies threw away almost two billion tons
of unsold alimentary products, which amounts to about a third of
all waste.
The future law should target first of all supermarkets and large
companies specializing in public catering. They will be banned
from destroying unsold goods. Instead, they will have to send it
to charity groups that help the poor, the unemployed, disabled
people and pensioners. The companies will be forbidden to charge
money for these operations. Another possibility is to send unsold
food to farms so it can be used as animal fodder.
Lantratova also said in her letter that the practice has already
been tested in various foreign countries. A week ago, France
passed a law ordering large supermarkets to enter agreements with
charity groups and send them all unsold food, not passed its
sell-by date. Food that is past a firm expiration date would go
to farms to be used as animal feed or compost. Managers of
companies who refuse to comply could face heavy fines or up to
two years in prison.
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forces supermarkets to donate to charity
Heads of Russian business groups were very skeptical about
Lantratova’s idea.
The head of the National Trade Association, Vadim Zuikov, called
the initiative dangerous as goods close to expiration date can
pose a threat to health. Besides, he noted that most supermarkets
buy food in quantities they can sell, especially given the
current difficult state of the economy.
The president of the Russian Restaurateurs’ Association, Igor
Bukharov, also said that throwing away food meant a loss in
profits for companies and this meant that restaurants and
catering enterprises would simply have nothing to give to
charity, even if the suggested law is passed.
On the other hand, the head of the Christian charity network
Noah, Yemelyan Sosinskiy, told reporters his organization was
ready to accept food passed it’s sell-by date. The chairman of
the Agricultural Cooperatives’ Association, Vyacheslav Telegin,
said farmers could accept food that had already gone off because
“animals are not choosy.”
Source Article from http://rt.com/politics/263105-russia-food-charity-volunteers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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