GREEN SUBSIDIES FOR SUPERMARKETS

Again, why Supermarkets are subsidised, in other words more money into fatcats pockets, which is taxpayers' money, instead of given it to the people to buy more food. 

MPs warned that millions of tonnes of edible food being wasted because of “perverse incentives” that reward turning it into green energy.

So far, this system allows firms to drop surplus food at low cost or for free at subsidised plants that make energy from anaerobic digestion. They also could be paid £60 per tonne.

Now the powerful Commons Committee will question food industry chiefs next week whether this state subsidy should not be given to the supermarkets to redistribute the surplus food to the needy. 

On Wednesday bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Morrison and the Food and Drink Federation will be questioned why not huge amount of food could be distributed to charities instead of mulched at anaerobic digestion plants to create biogas and fertiliser.

The Evening Standard, a London free newspaper, campaigned for Food for London and successfully managed to get top supermarket donate surplus to The Felix Project.  

Felix Project, delivers fresh produce to charities feeding hungry Londoners, food which would have gone into the bin.

Justin Bryan Shaw, co-founder with wife Jane of The Felix Project said: “Research by the Fare-Share charity could enable the food industry to make available a further 100,000 tonnes of surplus food  each year to charity. This could pretty much eradicate food poverty in the UK.”

An unbelievable 1.6 million tonnes of food every year are being wasted in Britain while people are starving and children go to school without breakfast. It is high time that it will be turned around and the Government acts quickly. It had been dragging on for years already and far too long.  

A most disgraceful situation created by Cameron’s Tory government while he created the highest number in the world of richest Elites.