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The UK has obviously fallen to a level of corruption that I hadn't expected, then - albeit some proof rather than innuendo would be nice. Farmers here sell almost entirely through cooperatives, even to supermarkets - the supermarkets get to pick what they want, but have zero control over...

Says you - you haven't got the figures. You've got a 10.8% harvest related loss figure which includes damage due to harvesting for starters - not an insignificant thing with, say, soft fruits. There reaches a point where its more productive and cost effective to lose a percentage than get...

The very article you linked to gave a breakdown of the overall loss showing at what stage of the process it was at, did you actually read it? You gave a single, inaccurate, set of figures; and you're now obsessing over a single example given (and getting rather pathetically petulant, as it...

And yet you went for an inaccurate newspaper headline figure rather than the actual UN committee figures, despite trying to use them as a reference? The majority of food waste comes from consumers buying more than they use and binning it; and retailers/food service ensuring that consumers can...

I suspect its significantly less than that again. I'd suggest that the entire 10% harvest-level wastage on that diagram includes all of the 'odd shape' stuff as well as multiple other causes of loss. The figure is and always has been hugely over-stated. If the media are already overstating the...

Do you seriously think farmers throw potential sales away? People constantly abuse figures to push an opinion, as is often the case. Its "trendy" to pull stunts like the 'curry made from malformed veg that would be thrown away' events that I've seen happening; where the organisers never mention...

News sources are getting that 40% figure from where in the first place? I've seen farm packaging lines (by accident rather than intent - the massive clanking machine that took in dirty spuds and put sacks of washed outs out the other side that happened to be a building next to a transmitter was...

Crap looking veg is what's used in food service and making ready meals as it is - there's this obsession that huge amounts are being binned when that isn't the case. Like a lot of these campaigns, ill informed and wildly missing the point. You don't expect a £1 Iceland takeaway to be using...