“Throwing away would be food waste”
GLP candidate advertises for the Zurich cantonal council with expired gummy bears
Michael De Vita-Läubli from the GLP is running for the Zurich Cantonal Council. He advertised it with gummy bears that have already expired six months ago. The politician knew about it, but he didn’t want to throw away the gummy bears. After all, that would be food waste.
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Michael De Vita-Läubli, member of the GLP, promotes his election to the Zurich Cantonal Council. Among other things with expired gummy bears.
Milena KalinEditor Economics
Michael De Vita-Läubli from the Green Liberal Party (GLP) wants to make it into the Zurich Cantonal Council in the February 12 election. He advertised this on January 11 at the Schwerzenbach ZH train station. Among other things, he distributed apples, Schöggeli and gummy bears.
But some of the gummy bears have already expired for more than half a year! June 1, 2022 is the expiry date on the packaging, as “20 minutes” writes.
Remnant of local elections
De Vita-Läubli knew about it. This is a small remainder from the local elections in spring 2022.
“Since the vegan gummy bears consist of a sugar mixture and a vegetable gelling agent, they are by no means hazardous to health, but simply harder,” says De Vita-Läubli to “20 minutes”. And: The best-before date is only a guideline anyway.
Don’t want to waste food
With this campaign, the GLP candidate wants to assume its ecological responsibility. Because his party is known to be strong against food waste. Because of the negative feedback, he will no longer distribute the remaining expired gummy bears.
However, they are not thrown away: De Vita-Läubli simply eats all the remaining gummy bears himself. “I’ve already done that as a quality control and I can say: the gummy bears were all nice and soft, tasty and definitely edible.”