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RE: Exposing The Food Industry I Have Worked in For Eight Years!!!!!
In Berlin, Germany, most supermarkets give away their food, which they would have to throw, to people with welfare, homeless, old people with little money, refugees, etc. Social groups collect the food and give it almost for free to the people.
Hurahhh!!!!! This is fantastic :) I am so happy to hear of such initiatives. The world is coming together and realizing a better future.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
I Iove Berlin BTW.
:) In whole Germany there are social groups collecting the food. One is called "Berliner Tafel" or "Tafel" in general for Germany. I worked there for 2 years 15 years ago when the idea was born. You work as a volunteer and don't get money. At this time we had food for 20 people but 200 persons waiting, because 1 supermarket helped. Today most supermarkets help and we can help more people. But in Germany the poverty rises fast (especially pensioneers) and its still not enough! There are also some people collecting the (packed) food from garbage cans of the supermarkets for using for theirselves at night. Sometimes they even meet each other for their "tour". But this is illegal in Germany. If you take the garbage of somebody elses garbage can it's called robbing and this is of course illegal. Many supermarkets have cameras for their garbage and report it to the police if they catch you on the camera! BTW I heard that in France some months ago they have a new law that forces the supermarkets to give away their old food to poor people to prevend throwing it! I hope they will establish this law in Germany once in the future, too. Unfortunately our government don't want this law yet.
I don't know about other German cities, but Berlin is full of initiatives for rescueing food! And they become more and more every day. I am really happy about this. Berlin is full of people who think alternative, ecological (green) and social.