Supermarkets would rather feed its food surplus to insects than selling foods too cheaply via discounts to their customers

🏪 A few points to contest from this article:
“Between 2020 - 2022, Waitrose’s “surplus” food increased by 33%, leading to supermarket chain donating more food to charity.”

🍏 Sometimes one has to wonder whether supermarkets are for-profit businesses or are they charities?

🍅 Even with all these donations, they still haven’t solved their food “surplus”.

🫑 No wonder Waitrose’s prices are unaffordable to so many, how can a business’ food “surplus” increase by 33% over a two year period? There are millions of people in that country looking for discounted foods. Set the right price and you will shift your products!

🥬 The new in-vogue solution is to collect food “surplus” and turn it into pet feed or animal feed via insects.

Comically, the processing company says: “Products that have passed their expiry date cannot be used.”

Is the company not aware that the majority of expiry dates extremely conservative? People can eat these products, never mind its insects or farm animals.

Reducing food waste has become extremely political and definitions of what counts and what does not count as food waste are becoming of crucial importance.

The bottom line is that there is huge over-abundance of food being produced on our planet and the oligopoly of the supermarkets is blocking this food being marketed at this correct price in relation to this tremendous overabundance (setting ludicrous fruit & veg sizing requirements for e.g.).

In effect, supermarkets have become a huge bottleneck and that is why legislators must start getting serious with anti-trust.

If our tax system incentivises powerful companies to feed insects to make “bio-eco-sustainable” feed as opposed to feeding people, then we need to revolutionise the tax system.

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