On 2009-07-30 09:01:31 +0100, Martin said:

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:32:44 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2009-07-29 21:20:38 +0100, "mark" said:


"K" wrote in message
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Kate Brown writes
We throw away two-thirds of the food we produce in the west. If we solved
the problem of waste we wouldn't need technological solutions to grow
more.

An interesting statistic. I've heard it widely quoted that we throw away a
third of all the food we buy. So that would imply that half of anything
produced is wasted before it gets to the kitchen, either during transport
or being unsold.
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There is a lot of waste on the farm. For example, a local farmer was
contracted to grow onions for a Lincolnshire based business. When it came
to harvest time they didn't want all of them so acres of good onions were
ploughed into the ground. Also a large percentage of potatoes are dumped
because they are too big, even the chipshops don't want them as they are too
big for the chipping machines.

mark

A local farm is going to plough in pea plants because demand is now
non-existent. That is the nature of modern farming.

It's not the farming, it's the hold a few supermarkets have over the farmers.

Organic report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-watchdog.html

These

don't sell to supermarkets. They're part of a large organic cooperative.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon