{"id":31300,"date":"2013-04-03T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=31300"},"modified":"2014-01-28T22:56:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T22:56:37","slug":"as-families-starve-supermarkets-throw-away-half-of-food-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/as-families-starve-supermarkets-throw-away-half-of-food-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"As Families Starve, Supermarkets Throw Away Half Of Food Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As an increasing number of UK families are struggling to survive, it has emerged that British supermarkets are throwing away over 10 billion pounds worth of food each year.<\/p>\n<p>Charity Oxfam has warned that 13 million Brits do not have enough to live on.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/food-supermarkets-trash-planet-258\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia Today<\/a>,\u00a0Tristram Stuart, author of \u2018Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal\u2019 said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAt the moment we pay supermarkets and other food businesses to trash the planet, to grow food, and then waste a third of it. We need to make a demand as consumers that they change their behavior as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we go to a supermarket and see that all the carrots are straight and all the apples look the same we need to say, \u2018Hold on a sec, why do all these fruits and vegetables look the same? What did that supermarket do with all the wonky ones?\u2019 and demand that actually they stock all the vegetables as they\u2019re grown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent many years visiting the skips of supermarkets and literally, you open up a skip and what you see is an array of perfectly good vegetables and fruit that have been thrown away. And most people think, \u2018Gosh, how disgusting to get food out of a bin.\u2019 It\u2019s true, it is disgusting. But what\u2019s disgusting is that we\u2019re throwing away fit-for-consumption food.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Fletcher from Beggar\u2019s Banquet, an organisation that has been\u00a0salvaging surplus food from London\u2019s restaurants and markets, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a chef I\u2019ve seen food being wasted at every restaurant and every event I\u2019ve ever done, and on a bigger scale at the supermarkets and an even larger scale at these big markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe food that we are taking is not good enough to sell, but too good to throw away\u2026It\u2019s just kind of OK to get someone to throw it in the bin when there\u2019s people starving. Not just in other countries where the food came from, but in this country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an increasing number of UK families are struggling to survive, it has emerged that British supermarkets are throwing away over 10 billion pounds worth of food each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-31300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news","10":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}