food waste
Protest with spades and potatoes at the Chancellery
Climate activists from the group “Uprising of the Last Generation” plant potatoes in front of Chancellor Scholz’s official residence. Photo: Paul Zinken/dpa-TNN/dpa
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First they blocked freeways in various major cities. Now some climate protectors of the “last generation” have planted potatoes in the pulpit in protest against food waste.
After almost three weeks of motorway blockades, some climate protection groups from the group “Uprising of the Last Generation” demonstrated at the Chancellery in Berlin.
In front of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s official residence, they dug up a piece of lawn with spades to plant potatoes, as their spokeswoman Sonja Manderbach said. They renewed the demand for a law against food waste.
The police intervened, confiscated the spades, according to Manderbach, and took personal details. A police spokeswoman confirmed the operation, but initially gave no details. She spoke of 20 to 30 demonstrators. There were brown holes in the ground on a piece of lawn in front of the Chancellery, as can be seen in the photos.
The same group has been blocking freeways since the end of January, mainly in Berlin, but also in Hamburg, Munich and other cities. In the meantime, she has been receiving sharp criticism from motorists, but also from federal politics, because traffic and people could be endangered.
The group calls for a “food rescue law” and an agricultural turnaround to reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture. Regarding the action on Saturday, she explained: “Since Chancellor Olaf Scholz is still a long time coming with the necessary announcement as to when there will be a food rescue law, vegetables are now being grown in front of his office.”