Rejected petition Put warning labels on food products to combat waste and climate change

We should take a stronger stance against key day-to-day contributors to climate change, such as food waste, high meat consumption and single-use plastic. By reminding people constantly, we will be treating climate change and unsustainable lifestyle as seriously as we treated smoking.

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Alongside the immediate effect of warning labels lowering unsustainably high demand for these products, this legislation would also contribute to creating a more conscientious mindset around collective resources. As a society, we eat meat too much, we waste around 30% of food, and we use too much packaging.

Sure, individuals can financially afford to be wasteful or over-indulgent, but it doesn't mean we can collectively afford it in the long-term. Future wars will hurt us if we don't act.

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Date submitted 9 September 2021
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