I’ve done alot of freeganism in my time, getting a great deal of quality food that was perfectly edible… Marks and Spencer Lobster, Whole legs of Lamb, Strawberries aplenty: the problem lies in the Best Before Date legislation, which makes it illegal to sell perfectly good food.
It is a tricky system to improve, as the manpower and training required to check the safety of foodstuffs would probably be economically prohibitive, but it’s really not acceptable the mind-boggling amounts of waste that occur in one City, let alone across the planet.
Once Marks + Spencer realized people were cottoning on to it, they started ripping open the packaging and covering the food in blue dye, which in itself requires additional manpower and wages. Some branches also built large secure compounds to prevent ‘theft’ of what had been deemed as waste…