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The right to glean dates back to Antiquity, and is explicitly allowed in France since the Middle Ages. Basically after the harvest, some grain and small batches
by wazoox 3y ago
The right to glean dates back to Antiquity, and is explicitly allowed in France since the Middle Ages. Basically after the harvest, some grain and small batches of straw will always remain, and are explicitly allowed to be gleaned by anyone caring to do so. It's also generally allowed to pick up dead wood in forests (even private ones) as long as it's fallen to the ground. Ditto mushrooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning
- BrandoElFollito 3y agoIn France this extends to urban areas where there are groups of people gleaning unsold supermarket goods. This was historically a problem (to the point where in the 80's whatever was unsold was actively made uneatable, I do not remember what the reason was - at least for agricultural unsold goods there was something about getting a refund from the state). Then it became more widespread, where some supermarkets put the unsold (but still good) stuff in clean trashbins. They had to formally throw it away for some tax reasons. I think this restriction was abolished because I see now supermarkets sometimes openly donating these goods, without going through a trashbin.