A Kelowna teen is doing his part to end food waste.
As of Friday, a petition created by Okanagan Mission Secondary student Justin Kulik, which aims to get rid of food waste in Canada, gathered 150,000 signatures on .
91裸聊视频淚nitially it was just the shock of finding out food was wasted in Canada per year, while also recognizing the number of Canadians living in food insecurity,91裸聊视频� he said.
Kulik will personally present the petition to the Minister of Agriculture Lawrence MacAulay on World Food Day Oct. 16 in Ottawa as well discuss food waste with the prime minister91裸聊视频檚 policy advisor for health, he said. Kulik91裸聊视频檚 original goal was to reach 100,000 signatures.
91裸聊视频淚 was quite surprised to log on today and see the spike in the number of signatures from a couple days to today,91裸聊视频� he said. He attributes the number91裸聊视频檚 sudden increase to a Huffington Post article which was published Oct. 11.
91裸聊视频淚 felt like hitting 100,000 was not necessarily going to be easy, but I did see it as going to be possible,91裸聊视频� he said.
As for the meeting, 91裸聊视频淚91裸聊视频檇 say I91裸聊视频檓 optimistic about it,91裸聊视频� Kulik said.
91裸聊视频淚t wasn91裸聊视频檛 out something I was planning for. I was optimistic about it gaining some traction and conversation about waste in Canada and the impact of that waste. So was I expecting this happy? Absolutely not. Was I hopeful? Of course.91裸聊视频�
91裸聊视频淓very year, $31 billion of food ends up in a landfill in Canada alone. This isn91裸聊视频檛 just stale bread and mouldy produce. This is good to eat food of all sorts. Produce, dairy, grain, protein, and everything outside of those,91裸聊视频� the petition said.
91裸聊视频淵et, nearly one million Canadians rely on food banks each month, and about four million Canadians are food insecure, of which 1.5 million are children.
In just a few days, Justin will be delivering your signatures to the Minister of Agriculture on .
91裸聊视频� Change.org Canada (@CdnChange)
He is asking our government to end food waste coming from supermarkets in Canada.
Why do you think we should end food waste?
91裸聊视频淚n 2015, the French government passed a law forbidding supermarkets from wasting and deliberately destroying food that can still be eaten. Instead, supermarkets have since been required to donate all unsold food products to charity such as food banks.
91裸聊视频淎 similar anti-food waste law can and should be implemented in Canada, nationwide. As it is, Quebec is now requiring that all supermarkets give unused food to food banks. Doing the same on a federal scale is not inconceivable. It is doable, and it is already being done in communities worldwide,91裸聊视频� the petition said.
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