Thank you for joining the public outcry calling on supermarkets to tackle the food waste scandal. Following Arash Derambarsh’s leadership and success with this campaign in France, over half a million people have joined the EU wide call to make supermarkets donate their unsold edible food to charities. The European Parliament has responded to the pressure and Angélique Delahaye MEP has added an amendment on this very issue to a vote on tomorrow, Wednesday 8th July. Angélique Delahaye first worked with us back in 2012 where as a farmer she collaborated on Global Gâchis, the food waste documentary I presented and on Feeding the 5000 in Paris where we created a massive free public feast using food that would have been wasted to celebrate the solutions to food waste. She co- founded and is the president of the food waste organisation Solaal and now as an MEP she has tabled an amendment on tomorrow’s vote in the European Parliament. This is an important first step to make sure that our laws reflect a fundamental value- that food is too good to waste. The European Parliament need to show leadership and support the amendment which calls on the European Commission to “promote in member states the creation of conventions proposing that retail food sector distribute their unsold products to charity associations”. At a time when there are around one billion malnourished people in the world and forests are being destroyed to grow food that ends up in landfill, we need to urgently tackle the problem. One billion hungry people could be lifted out of malnourishment on less than a quarter of the food that is wasted in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. To make sure that MEPs vote to get supermarkets to donate their edible unsold food, we need to keep up the pressure. We’re aiming to have a million signatures, so the most important thing that you can do now is share this petition far and wide, email it to your friends and post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram with #stopfoodwaste Thank you! Tristram and the Feedback team #stopfoodwaste #foodwaste Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jul/07/campaign-to-cut-supermarket-food-waste-reaches-european-parliament