A responsible use of food should be encouraged through financial incentives (taxes or fines and discounts) - Opinion essay

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[...] Indeed, the labelling of products leads to a certain polarisation between producers who have a label and producers who do not: this leads to inequalities that are not negligible. Under these conditions, changes still need to be taken into account to strengthen the application of organic and local farming methods. In short, it seems that it is necessary to take into consideration the issues related to the environment today and that is why the defence of local farming methods must be supported to the maximum. [...]

[...] A responsible use of food should be encouraged through financial incentives (taxes or fines and discounts) - Opinion essay Texts for inspiration: https://theoutline.com/post/8739/food-waste-fight-waste-of-time https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2017/11/organic-farming-can-feed-the-world-until-you-read-the-small-print. Introduction: The two articles proposed, one entitled "The war on food waste is a waste of time" written by Austin Bryniarski and published in the website TheOutline.com and the other entitled "Organic farming can feed the world - until you read the small print" written by Mark Lynas and published in the website Allianceforscience, present diverging views on the issue of food management. [...]

[...] However, as Mark Lynas points out, we are now witnessing problems in terms of food management, but also access to food, which are very important and which must be taken into account by everyone. Setting up organic farms can be a sustainable solution in the long term. Indeed, it could allow us to avoid using very large production channels, which are responsible for pollution, as when we buy a banana imported from another continent, and therefore to have a more ecological behaviour. [...]