Anybody watching Hughs war on waste

Fekin supermarkets killing Farmers and farming in general.
It's fekin barmy the things and amounts that go to waste.
We are a disgraceful species.

 

I think I'm unusual in that I rarely throw any food away. I eat everything on my plate, and everything in my fridge.
It's probably as a result of my Mum sending me on a guilt trip about starving people when I was little and that it wasn't morally right to throw anything away.
That and the fact I'm just greedy.

 

Im with you there brother, i cant stand to see food wasted. Apart from the starving millions guilt, i also have the meat or fish guilt bearing down on me. Some poor creature has given its life up to give you that chicken drumstick or fish finger!!

 

Absolute scandal isn't it, those clowns from Morrisons trying to justify their immoral stance, the experiment re selling the odd shaped produce was clearly flawed from the start.........talk about setting up an experiment to fail..........you've got to hope programmes like this will alter the way we stop waste etc but time will tell.....

 

All those things. And what rothred said. Nothing gets thrown away.

 

I read an article about one of Britains biggest Mushroom farmers, apparently in Wath. He got on with T***o, at first everything was ok, over a period they bought more and more off him until he could only supply them...then they squeezed him on price, eventually he was making nothing...so he kicked off and they responded by throwing him off their buying list..the one they forced him to be on at a cost of (i think) £200,000....
great way of doing business.

 

Common tactics. Read "What's Not OnThe Label" by Felicity Lawrence if you haven't. I try to avoid the supermarkets unless I really have to go there. Used to use them once or twice a week, but now down to once a month. Try to use the market and small local shops.

 

I'm not sure whether you're referring to the mushroom farmer or Tesco.

It's not like the supermarkets behaviour is a surprise to anyone is it? What surprises me is that farmers constantly do business with them. And moan about them. And fail to open up alternative sales channels.

And when they do what you get is a farm shop. Now I really don't get farm shops. Farmers moan about how little they get from supermarkets and the supermarkets are making massive profits. Then you bob in the farm shop and stuff is three times the price of supermarkets......eh? how does that work. Sell it to me for 10% less than the supermarket is selling it and we all win - but no - the money grabbing tories try and rip you off again.

Live by the sword die by the sword Mr. Range rover driving tory farmer. We don't see you giving us a deal when the times are good so stop moaning to me about how bad your lot is when the pendulum swings against you. Nearly as bad as teachers farmers are.

 

I'm not sure whether you're referring to the mushroom farmer or Tesco.

It's not like the supermarkets behaviour is a surprise to anyone is it? What surprises me is that farmers constantly do business with them. And moan about them. And fail to open up alternative sales channels.

And when they do what you get is a farm shop. Now I really don't get farm shops. Farmers moan about how little they get from supermarkets and the supermarkets are making massive profits. Then you bob in the farm shop and stuff is three times the price of supermarkets......eh? how does that work. Sell it to me for 10% less than the supermarket is selling it and we all win - but no - the money grabbing tories try and rip you off again.

Live by the sword die by the sword Mr. Range rover driving tory farmer. We don't see you giving us a deal when the times are good so stop moaning to me about how bad your lot is when the pendulum swings against you. Nearly as bad as teachers farmers are.

 

Bob on that, poor owd farmers my arse.

 

and that.

 

Yes also very,very rarely waste domestically but the programme was referring to corperative waste which as individuals there's nothing much we can do that's why programmes like this are essential and why Tory types want rid of the BBC.
Don't know whether its caused just by the supermarkets but something needs to be done and not all food farmers are greedy****s, the majority of the land rover gentry as alluded to on here usually get paid for growing fek all .

 

The amount of waste not given away bothers me, perfectly edile foos for instange get it given to charities

one of the supermarket fella's hit the nail on the head though when talking about farmers waste.. no one buys bent or split carrots etc so the supermarkets dont buy them from the farmer. simple as that, consumers have forced their hand.

on another note there was a show on last night doing a fairly good hatchet job on Aldi. Was like..ohhh look the cheap supermarlet isnt as good as one of the big 4. Utter tosh.

 

We shop regularly at Morrisons in Gainsborough and we like to go late on a Friday or Saturday when they are putting the yellow stickers on, reducing fresh produce.
The more we can buy the better, simply because we have been told that the stuff that doesn't sell gets thrown into the skip at the back. It's not that we are greedy but we know that most of it will freeze so it will get eaten, not wasted.
We were told that they have to put locks on the skips to stop scroungers pilfering the thrown away food, but they'd rather do that than give the food away to homes or other needy people for free.
Apparently, as well, the staff do not get a chance to buy any of the yellow sticker stuff, discounted or not.
I'm sure the other supermarkets act similarly.
It makes my blood boil to think of food wastage when we have so much spare.
I will not waste food at home, only if it has gone blue, furry, or smells like my bum will I consider binning it, but I will try to scrape off all extraneous growths first.
I hate all this ****** about "sell by", "use by" etc dates, and what I loathe most is when people throw away food IN TINS which is on or past the "date". Get real !

 

I don't like this thread much. I work for Morrisons (not at a supermarket, but still) and my missus' sister is a farmer. For the record, she isn't a Tory. Nor does she drive a range, and nor does her husband. They do have a 4x4 of some kind, because they live on a farm and it's practical, obviously. But they're not rich, they work 18 hours a day making a living, looking after their animals and looking after their land. He was born into it, she married into it. It's proper graft. Obviously they're not without money, but they're clever and like in any business, clever folk succeed. Can't speak for all farmers obviously.

Agree on Morrisons though. Or any other brand. The amount of waste at our place is ridiculous. And we're told weekly, just how bad for business it is. Because it's wasting money. That's the only reason. The biggest wastage in our company is right at the top. Far too many chiefs who do **** all, but are paid silly money. Occasionally coming up with stupid ******* ideas to justify their existence.

 

Agreed. I eat everything. I ignore any date stickers, whether it's "use by", "best before", "display until" or whatever. The fact that there are so many different types of stickers just shows how daft it is. I actually know people who pay good money for their shopping, keep it in the fridge for a day or two, then put it in the bin.

If it looks OK, smells OK and doesn't have mould on it, down the hatch it goes. Strengthens the immune system.