Taste the Waste

Ever seen sandwiches being put in a large bin bag at the end of the day at a coffee shop? Or have you ever been round the back of Marks & Spencers on a Sunday evening?
Each year in Britain an estimated £20 billion of perfectly edible food is condemned as waste. That's shocking.
Everything from abnormally shaped carrots to gourmet paninis just a day out of date.
Incidentally, in a recent study by a United Nations focus group, a figure was given to the anual cost required to feed the 115 million people in Africa affected by starvation. Guess the answer.
With an anual £20 billion worth of food it is estimated that famine would be eradicated in Africa by 2015.
Obviously it's logistically impossible to export every scrap and morsel, but then again, as a country we waste a shameful amount.
Thanks to health and safety, the food has to be destroyed when its out of date.
Some cases are more understandable than others, such as high-risk food products like fish and eggs.
In my local coffee establishment, uneaten cheese and Marmite sandwiches are not just put in the bin, but taken straight to a disposal facility. Because they're slightly stale. Staff can take them home if the wish, but the gentleman huddled under the archway round the corner starves.
Where have our priorities gone?
What we need is some wealthy philanthropist to come and point out that change doesn't mean colour coded plastic bins.