FOOD BANKS FOR POOR ACCORDING TO SEN. BAM AQUINO

Sen. Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV wants food businesses to give their surplus food to food banks instead of throwing them away, proposing a bill that would facilitate the transfer of excess but clean food for the benefit of those who could not afford meals.


n Senate Bill NO. 357, or the Zero Food Waste Act, Aquino hopes to “ultimately end the cycle of having food end up in the trash instead of stomachs.”
“Given the high price of food these days, it is unjust that a lot of food goes to waste,” Aquino said in a statement.


Food businesses will be tasked to transport their excess food to food banks or distribution centers on their account, to ensure that the surplus would remain safe for consumption.

Those who will “deliberately make food waste unfit for consumption” and anyone who will bar the transport of food to food banks may face imprisonment of from six months to six years./rga