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To: Managing Directors of Tescos, Sainsburys.Morrisons. ASDA. Waitrose
Preventing food wastage
Do not dispose fruit and veg, just because it's weirdly shaped or not the right size to sell. This food is still perfectly edible.
Make these fruit and vegetables available to buy instead.
Why is this important?
As can be seen in this new report by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, The amount of fresh vegetables wasted because they do not meet the cosmetic standards of these supermarkets is monumental.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34647454?SThisFB
Other reports show that conditions such as scurvy, malnutrition and rickets are on the increase. To dispose of food produce that is perfectly edible but is deemed not saleable simply because they do not conform to the right size and dimensions while people go hungry through not being able to afford or access such produce is criminal.
I have previously petitioned you to stop disposing of foodstuffs that are still edible but out of date and some responded stating they had a policy to send food to charities that asked for it.
I am now asking you to create a policy that provides an avenue for these fruit and vegetables to be made accessible. I am not asking you to give them away.
Wastage of this produce is causing financial harm to the farmers that grow it.
I find such an attitude that creates this waste abhorrent when so many are going hungry.
