Restaurants of the Heart reopen their generous closets this winter for the 24th consecutive year. For while the centers are now open all year for the poorest, the launch of the distribution of winter (from December 1 to March 31) remains highly symbolic: it is qu'affluent mass victims of cold and this year especially, the economic crisis.
Officials of the association founded by Coluche fear indeed to beat a new record attendance, because of this' social and economic climate very difficult and unprecedented. " Last year, some 51,500 volunteers have served more than 91 million meals to about 700,000 beneficiaries.
"There are more people to help"
In Seine-Saint-Denis for example, entries are open since mid-November - are "already up 10%" argued an official of Restaurants of the Heart. And the figure will likely increase, as the winter progresses, it also fears. Nationally, the trend is much the same: enrollment increased by 5 to 10% say those responsible.
Faced with increased insecurity and declining purchasing power explain how supermarkets who throw the food.
Supermarkets, fast food restaurants, bakeries, stations, airports, etc.. Reject each day tons of food. A treasure that some do not hesitate to recover. These are called the freegans. Their credo: Fighting over!
The militants' freeganisme "are not bums, but active, usually urban, that gain all that food stores and supermarkets put in the trash. In doing so, "freegans" criticize the consumer society they believe, in turn, responsible for violation of human rights, environmental destruction and animal torture, close the ban. For them, consumption market can not be a criterion for defining the well-being.
Meanwhile, the few professionals of large retailers who agree to speak on the subject prefer to put forward their donations to food banks and branches reclamation of waste they put in place.
For other followers of the movement, be "freegan" is also trying to awaken consciences more violently. With increasing insecurity and poverty, food for all should take precedence weapons programs.
And if everybody does not necessarily anti-belief of freegans, the debate over many questions
Because the waste bins beyond supermarkets and, if freegans do not attack our waste, our bins do not least teem mountain of food wasted. You figure that every day 1 300 000 yoghurt pots go in the trash without being opened.
Similarly 5 500 chickens were dumped without ever seeing the inside of the oven, at a time when food prices are rising sharply.
If the trash is making a case of militancy for some, for others it is a matter of necessity and survival. Pascal, Melanie, are few.
He arrived in Pascal, a student without a penny, to the dustbins of Mc Do in the city.
Melanie: "In gleaning market I save 15 € per week"
Protected by its cherry red umbrella, Melanie was crouched between crates and cardboard. At a time when the market Cristal folds its trestles, the student license Glane English fruit and vegetables unsold.
On reflection, Melanie recognizes that it can get fruits and vegetables aware of the incredible waste product that the consumer society. But his choice is guided primarily by economic reasons that students know: "I have a budget of € 200 per month. My mother pays me rent - 415 € - for a few months. Then it will take me débouille alone. In picking fruit and vegetable market, I save a good fifteen euros per week. "
Most share a common knowledge for months. A 32-year and 60, and Andre Bernard receive meager 440 euros each of RMI. Lidl in their bag, a big rag reach just a few mushrooms. "It's too expensive! The prices of vegetables have risen further, we can not afford them, "Andre is sorry. In this Saturday, the harvest is a little thin and they come back the next day ...
In response, we will not change our ways and our consumption habits
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