Richard Corrigan on Hunger
I have just watched this programme on TV on an investigation into food poverty in this country. It has been quite revealing as it is far more widespread than we think even with people who hold full time jobs but who are on a low wage and it is very much a case of there but for the grace of god go I. In other words that could be me or you - just the wrong turn of the dice and the card tower comes tumbling down. Food prices are also going up and this is all part and parcel of the waste cycle or the supermarkets insisting on a specific sized shaped apple s, parsnips etc. Come on get real, different foods are meant to be different in size etc not meant to conform. Food is meant to be eaten not sat on the dresser and admired! What struck me most is that the supermarkets and the public in general are wasting so much food. Its like Hugh's fish fight - chucking back food into the sea because they have their quota and wasting a commodity because it doesn't fit...