China’s “anti-food waste” law aims to cajole the public into better habits, such as ordering “in moderation” and eating “in a civilised and healthy” way
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskSoon after he came to power in 2013, China’s president, Xi Jinping, recounted his own experience of hunger during China’s Great Famine of 1959-61. Even at his elite boarding school, dinner meant only soup. He also spoke of lean times during the Cultural Revolution from 1966-76, when he went months without “knowing the taste of meat”. Such hardship bred frugal habits in people of his generation.
In 2020 Mr Xi called China’s food-waste problem “shocking and distressing”, framing it in terms of food security. A year later his government enacted an “anti-food waste” law. It is a mish-mash of worthy edicts, such as rules on grain storage, and wacky ones, such as a ban on streaming, a phenomenon that originated in South Korea. Violators may be fined as much as 100,000 yuan and slapped with administrative punishments.
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