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Before 2016, supermarkets in France were pouring bleach over their unsold food. They did it specifically to stop people foraging in their bins at night. Perfectly good produce was deliberately contaminated so nobody could eat it.

Then the law changed.

France became the first country to outlaw the destruction of unsold groceries outright. Any supermarket larger than 400 square meters is now legally required to form distribution partnerships with food banks. The bleach is gone. The locked dumpsters are gone. Now, millions of high-quality meals that would have gone to landfill are handed directly to populations who actually need them.

It proved that hunger is often a logistics problem, not a supply problem. France just forced the logistics to work.