Is it time to hold Canada’s biggest food wasters — grocery chains, food producers — legally responsible? This is VANCOLOUR host Mo Amir asks lawyer Kyla Lee (Acumen Law). Can food waste ever be considered a legal harm? Are “best before” labels misleading the public? Kyla gives us the legal perspective and why these questions may best be answered by B.C. Premier David Eby.
“You can sue anybody whether you’d be successful in that lawsuit.Whether you have a legitimate claim is another question.And while there’s some arguable cases for causes of action, at the end of the day,I don’t think there would be any provable case for food waste that would successfully, have an outcome in court.”
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The BC government has historically written legislation that’s allowed them to sue big tobacco for the healthcare costs recovery.They’ve written legislation to allow them to sue pharmacy companies for cost recovery… vaping companies.They could do the same thing for big food producers.Connecting it to the environmental harms and the cost that government has had to pay out both in healthcare and environmental costs.
