BBC Great British Waste Menu?

I live in the middle of the farming country in East Anglia in the UK, and see the awful waste of good quality food that is the wrong size, the wrong shape for the supermarket giants and is just ploughed back into the land to rot, where I'm sure it could be put to good use in hospitals and refuge centres or somewhere like that, and then we are complaining about the cost of our hospitals. Sorely every penny that we save in ths case could be put towards patient care. I'm sure if we didn't have to abide by the rules of Europe this country would be much better.

Also in the case of farmers they are squeezed to the tiniest of profits by the big supermarket giants, and if they complain they are just dropped and go bust. Bring back the small shops!!!

Yes BECAUSE apart from showing the supermarkets that people AREN'T constantly worried about fruit and veg being misshapen or slightly blemished, but it will save me going to a "Farm Shop" on the edge of the London/Essex border where I can find a tray of eggs for less than the price of 15 in the S/M, I can get all the veg I could ever want - practically straight out of the ground just a few fields away at a fraction of the price, and even find a good range of tinned and packet foods and even cakes and biscuits all far cheaper - and if I have to use a car to shop at a supermarket, I might as well go for a ride over to the Essex boundary for a ride too !

Within the UK it is a massive waste.

Internationally it's a dodgy. We make farmers in the third world more economically active to grow this produce. This gives them and income and jobs. Then they are left with the food that we don't want. This food can then be sold at a lower rate internally within the country (hopefully). Unfortunately though, when you import food you actually import water which has terrible effects.

At the end of the day it would be better if we did eat all the food that we can grow. Here in the UK we have become spoilt on food and need to be prepared to have a reduced selection readily available.

I would wholeheartedly support that sort of section in a supermarket. The sad fact is that in todays compensation culture, where people expect cash everytime something is inconvenient in their lives

, the supermarkets would be too fearful of court cases if someone ate something that made them ill. We need to toughen up as a society first before anything like that could happen.

I saw most of it, and i was astounded at the amount of waste. Being vegetarian (the rest of my family aren't btw) i was appalled at how much meat and animal products that weren't suitable for the retailers

I think the 'eat the same day' shelf is a brilliant idea, but i think a lot of people will still want 'perfect' food. but i suppose the amount of waste will be greatly reduced

I have no problem with this as I've be buying it the market for 60 years.

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