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Malnutrition
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/ma gazine- 3464745 4
//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.//
Here we have tonnes of fresh fruit and veg being dumped , all because they "failed" the "cosmetic standards"
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//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.//
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Whether it is malnutrition or hunger it is due to only a handful of reasons. Malnutrition In certain countries is because of “use by date” or cosmetic reasons as you mentioned. And hunger in few countries is due to unequal distribution of food. We human are never satisfied and somewhere people are dying of hunger and in other parts of the world obesity is the problem.
maggiebee The ever antagonistic Maggie spouts (not sprouts dear) forth again lol!
Compassion does not put food on tables. Its a fact a large proportion of the 'poor and vulnerable'- and I use that term very loosely - do not have the basic skills to provide a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients. I don't want to feel sorry for them or criticise -I want them to be educated into preparing good nutritional meals for less than the cost of a family bucket at KFC -what is wrong with that?
Compassion does not put food on tables. Its a fact a large proportion of the 'poor and vulnerable'- and I use that term very loosely - do not have the basic skills to provide a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients. I don't want to feel sorry for them or criticise -I want them to be educated into preparing good nutritional meals for less than the cost of a family bucket at KFC -what is wrong with that?
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I happened to read about this yesterday...
You can blame the Food Standards Agency, Elf n safety and consumers who are for the most part are media hypnotised into only wanting unblemished veg etc etc...bit of mud on a spud and people dont touch them, bruised apples the same and on it goes.
Best by dates Sell by dates etc etc, people are scared to eat the stuff if its over the dates because theyve been made to believe it will kill them or god knows what..shops k r a p p themselves thelly be fined, sued if they contavene the "rules"...
Ive eaten stuff well past the dates..if it looks ok and smells ok then its pretty much ok...a little bit of green mould on bread, just cut it off, Ive never been ill eating anything doing this.
This nonsense with dates and shops and food is typical of todays nanny state and making peole scared of everything..
I happened to read about this yesterday...
You can blame the Food Standards Agency, Elf n safety and consumers who are for the most part are media hypnotised into only wanting unblemished veg etc etc...bit of mud on a spud and people dont touch them, bruised apples the same and on it goes.
Best by dates Sell by dates etc etc, people are scared to eat the stuff if its over the dates because theyve been made to believe it will kill them or god knows what..shops k r a p p themselves thelly be fined, sued if they contavene the "rules"...
Ive eaten stuff well past the dates..if it looks ok and smells ok then its pretty much ok...a little bit of green mould on bread, just cut it off, Ive never been ill eating anything doing this.
This nonsense with dates and shops and food is typical of todays nanny state and making peole scared of everything..