Any law that permits the dumping of food is immoral

When moral, law-abiding fishermen last week landed their surplus catch of monkfish and distributed it to the local people, they highlighted one of the most nefarious practices within the ‘law’.

What sort of law demands that good food be returned to the ocean, when children in Ireland are going to bed without supper, and to school without breakfast, and when children are starving to death in many parts of the world?

This law should be reformed right now, because if law means anything, then this one is iniquitous and unjust.

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