French supermarkets banned from throwing away and spoiling unsold food

This is frankly worrying, as I suspect authorties are underestimating the complexity of an issue, or just chose to ignore it, mostly for populist motives.

It seems to me that food nowadays is ridiculously cheap, and I'm pretty sure everyone would agree this is a good thing. Now, I'm no expert but the only way I can explain it, is that we produce a lot of food, so much that we can't sell it all.

People who work in food distribution are pretty smart, and they must have good reasons to destroy food before throwing it away (bleach is not free after all).

As often, I fear this measure is an other attempt from a government to fiddle with an industry it does not understand.

And again, this strikes me as populist. Because frankly, in France poor people don't starve.