From today's Sunday Herald:
Fat profits: Tesco’s record earnings merely reflect our own greed in a consumerist age
Food for thought
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Bob Jefferson
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The article seems to equate a) Tesco's high profits with b) a penchant supermarket customers have for over-stocking on food items which are then thrown away uneaten.
I'm not sure that this is entirely the case, as business pundits suggest that Tesco's record profits are down to its diversion into white goods, in-store pharmacies etc.
I don't dispute, however, that we discard a lot of food items and it does seem a scarily high amount per person. I plead guilty to having a 'thing' about having a well stocked fruit bowl and salad drawer, which inevitably leads to food being discarded as I also can't bare to consume anything past its 'use by date'. Part of it I suppose is that we are bombarded with health campaigns - "5 a day"- and another is the fact that when I was young my mother would shop much more on a daily basis, while my generation tend to have a big weekly shop (fridges are great things) 'topped' up with some daily purchases.
The best solution I suppose (other than making sure we eat every last satsuma and salad leaf) would be to follow Epykat's example and get myself a compost bin
or perhaps I should start raising pigs ?:snorting:
I'm not sure that this is entirely the case, as business pundits suggest that Tesco's record profits are down to its diversion into white goods, in-store pharmacies etc.
I don't dispute, however, that we discard a lot of food items and it does seem a scarily high amount per person. I plead guilty to having a 'thing' about having a well stocked fruit bowl and salad drawer, which inevitably leads to food being discarded as I also can't bare to consume anything past its 'use by date'. Part of it I suppose is that we are bombarded with health campaigns - "5 a day"- and another is the fact that when I was young my mother would shop much more on a daily basis, while my generation tend to have a big weekly shop (fridges are great things) 'topped' up with some daily purchases.
The best solution I suppose (other than making sure we eat every last satsuma and salad leaf) would be to follow Epykat's example and get myself a compost bin
or perhaps I should start raising pigs ?:snorting:www.porty.org.uk