Malnutrition

[Bazile]

Following on from the thread below , from sandyRoe , about malnutrition .

Here we have tonnes of fresh fruit and veg being dumped , all because they "failed" the "cosmetic standards"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34647454


//Yet the supermarket client found them wanting. They "failed" the "cosmetic standards". They weren't wonky, or forked, or bruised or even "ugly". They just departed, sometimes by a matter of millimetres, from some bizarre set of specifications that defines, with apparent omniscience, what it is that we, the customers, demand our parsnips to be. Not that anyone's asked us.//

[paddywak]

I've never bothered about the dates on most thing since I worked in the food industry and discovered that things are only date stamped when they were packed immediately prior to,and from the date of dispatch, irrespective of when they were made and how long they had been stored in the freezers

[ludwig]

I can sort of understand why the supermarkets don't want them. The sad fact is that people will choose 'perfect' looking veg over 'imperfect' veg if given the option.

What's criminally wasteful is that the supermarket rejects are just destroyed instead of going to some other outlet.

[youngmafbog]

Most of this sort of thing can be lead back to the EUSSR.