Stores finally begin selling ‘ugly’ produce to solve hunger and waste...

Wal-Mart, America’s biggest food retailer, will start selling ‘ugly’ fruit in order to help reduce food waste. While some prattle on about how there are food shortages requiring our use of genetically modified organisms, more than 40 percent of all food grown, shipped, cooked, and served is thrown away in America every year.

Meanwhile, one in six Americans is considered food unstable, meaning they don’t know where their next meal will come from. It is possible to end food waste and hunger, but we need to be looking at food from a new angle.

Those glossy fruits and vegetables you see in Whole Foods, Target, Kroger, and other grocery stores in the U.S. are often hand-picked, covered in wax, and other ‘beautifying’ agents to make them look more appealing to ensure that people will purchase them. Fruit that is bruised, oddly shaped, or somehow unattractive, though still entirely edible, is unfortunately discarded. Full story...

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