Our Achievements
The best thing about working in Zachraň jídlo is that we can actually see things changing. The supermarkets started to sell wonky vegetables, some absurd laws are being amended, and food banks profit from our work, too.
In 2016, we have prepared a campaign called I Am Ready to raise awareness about aesthetic standards on fruits and vegetables. The petition was signed by more than 10,000 people. After that, two shops – Penny Market and online supermarket Rohlik.cz – started to sell wonky fruits and vegetables. Later, TESCO joined, and it is now selling wonky vegetables, too.
Thanks to our first happening, we managed to highlight the problem of the 15% VAT, which the merchants had to pay for the donation of food to charities. The tax was canceled in December 2014.
