Kerry's Food Waste Bill

Tony Gosling tony at cultureshop.org.uk
Tue Aug 14 21:36:47 BST 2012 

Feeding pigs

I wasn’t sure whether there would be any 
opposition to my Food Waste Bill today. In the 
past some Tory MPs have been very rude to Vince 
Cable about the Groceries Code Adjudicator, and 
some are opposed to any form of new regulations 
affecting business. Philip Davies, the MP for 
Shipley, used to work for ASDA and I expected 
that if anyone stepped in to oppose the Bill and 
push it to a vote, it would be him, but he wasn’t 
in the Chamber. Instead Anne Main, the Tory MP 
for St. Albans (who defeated Labour’s very nice 
Kerry Pollard in 2005, another Kerry but a man) 
stood up to speak, not to oppose the Bill in its 
entirety but to raise concerns about my calling 
for food that wasn’t fit for human consumption to 
then be diverted for livestock feed. She quite 
rightly said that it’s illegal to feed some forms 
of food waste to livestock. I was aware of that, 
and wasn’t of course calling for anything to be 
done that is illegal under EU laws, but simply 
for the waste hierarchy to be followed as will be 
required by the EU Waste Directive by the end of 
2013. Here’s a few words that were in an earlier 
draft of my speech but had to be deleted for time reasons:

“There are considerable environmental benefits to 
be gained from using food waste for animal feed 
(for pigs and chickens) including avoided 
emissions from producing soya for animal feed, 
deforestation, and shipping soy to Europe. 
Feeding unwanted food to pigs can save up to 500 
times more carbon emissions than using the same 
food waste in anaerobic digestion to produce energy.

There is a strong case for reassessing the 2001 
decision by the UK and the EU to ban the feeding 
of catering and domestic food waste to livestock. 
Lifting the ban cannot be included in this Bill 
as it would require action at EU level. However, 
hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food are being 
wasted annually in the UK which can legally be used as livestock feed.

For example, Sainsbury’s recently adopted the 
policy of diverting all of its bread waste to 
livestock feed, in preference to anaerobic 
digestion. And Tesco’s has started to do the 
same. One sandwich manufacturer that switched 
from anaerobic digestion to livestock feed as a 
way of disposing of unwanted bread made savings 
of up to £100,000 per year in avoided disposal costs.”

By kerrymccarthy, on March 14, 2012 at 4:12 pm, under #. 4 Comments


At 20:26 14/08/2012, you wrote:
>
>
>Does the mayor know that feeding chickens food 
>waste is illegal under the notorious EU food waste directive?
>He should join forces with Kerry McCarthy MP to remove it,  see:
><http://kerrymccarthy.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/feeding-pigs/>http://kerrymccarthy.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/feeding-pigs/
>
>Simon Fairlie
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>On 14 Aug 2012, at 12:21, Tony Gosling wrote:
>
>>
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>>French village Pince to hand out chickens to cut waste
>>
>><http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17540287>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17540287
>>As well as reducing waste, officials hope the chickens will provide
>>at least 200 eggs per year
>>
>>Chickens to cut Belgium's waste
>>
>>A French village has proposed giving two chickens to each household
>>in order to cut down on organic waste.
>>
>>Officials in the village of Pince in north-western France say the
>>chickens should each consume 150kg (330lb) of rubbish per year.
>>
>>It is hoped that as well as reducing waste, the chickens will help
>>families save money by providing eggs.
>>
>>Those who express an interest will receive their chickens in
>>September, officials say.
>>
>>"To begin with it was a joke, but then we realised it was a very good
>>idea," mayor of Pince Lydie Pasteau told France 3 TV.
>>
>>"It will also reinforce community links: just as people look after
>>their neighbours' cats and dogs while they're away, they'll also look
>>after the chickens," she said.
>>
>>Between 15 and 20 households are believed to have shown an interest
>>in the scheme so far.
>>
>>Ms Pasteau said she hoped the chickens would prove "a good investment
>>as the the cost of waste disposal is bound to increase over time."
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