What WEF Have Done To UK Food

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It is already here. Proving Representative Democracy is Dead, unelected bureaucrats that don’t even live within Britain have foisted their low quality food poisoning agenda upon the populace.

Back in August, the WEF enjoined that the UK (and nowhere else) will become the testbed for removing ‘best before’ labels, with magically invented weasel word unnamed so-called “experts” invoking Milgram experiment vibes. They plan the same for the US, as well.

Date labelling on food is confusing and is a key part of the food waste problem, experts say.

The WEF of course invents this nonsense with no evidence to back up the claim. Confusing? To who? It’s just a date, nearly anyone can read a date. What experts? Key part, what? Based on what data?

To find that answer you have to turn to ‘Iraq has weapons of mass destruction’ lying AP news.

The experts in question? A random New York non-profit with no prior history or work ethic called ‘ReFED’:

“I do think that the level of support for this has grown tremendously,” said Dana Gunders, executive director of ReFED, a New York-based nonprofit that studies food waste.

Why an unelected New York non-profit full of corporate CEOs is dictating British policymaking, I do not know. It claims to have only just cropped up in 2015, meaning there are TikTokers with more life experience than this WEF agenda foisting shell company.

ReFED’s Board of Directors has the usual selection of out-of-touch Corporate America creepos, and like the flaws The Daily Beagle found with the food industry laden so-called “Food Compass”, ReFED’s “advisory council” has, unsurprisingly, food industry ties, including the aptly named Benjamin Crook from Unilever:

And Julia Ruedig, principal of Amazon Fresh:

It is worth reminding people Unilever’s fingerprints were all over the Food Compass shindig as well.

The WEF fluff piece goes on to brag how Waitrose, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer, and the Co-op are cherry picking different items to ‘remove’ the dates from. Waitrose and Marks and Spencer have declared fruits and vegetables will be affected, with Morrisons claiming to scrap milk, with the Co-op claiming own brand yoghurt will be affected.

Morrisons appear to be confusing milk - which typically has a use by date (use by dates are required by UK law) with a ‘best before’ date, which also does not appear to be exempt for milk.

There’s another tiny little flaw with this. The products they’re removing the ‘best before’ dates from are on the items where it wasn’t required to begin with. Typically you’d see these - potatoes, tomatoes, apples, pears, etc - sold loose at a farmers market where no such dates are enjoined.

However, supermarkets did not just randomly adopt the ‘best before’ date for no reason. Printing labels, tracking dates, etc, costs money, which means, you guessed it, it serves a purpose.

It was originally called the ‘sell by’ date, and ironically it was introduced by Marks and Spencer, for the food line ‘St Michael’.

The Spectator article glosses over why it was introduced and remarks:

The concept was quickly adopted by other supermarkets after evidence that shoppers liked the reassurance of a date.

Which paints shoppers as some sort of knuckle-dragging simpletons easily impressed by a random date, but alas, no. Without dates, stores could sell subpar, low quality, not-very-fresh foods. If you’ve ever been to a store where the bananas are black and brown, there appears to be heavy greening on the potatoes or mold on the fruit, then this is what it harks back to.

Shoppers bought foods with sell-by dates, not because of the dates themselves, but because the produce on display was fresher, as all the moldy, old, low quality foods had been effectively tossed. Would the WEF eat the potato eye edge trimmings, black-and-brown banana, moldy apple, wilted sour-tasting salad, and the sour, liquid-y yoghurts? I think not.

Then there’s the other reason: shoppers who get food poisoning tend to sue companies, for very obvious reasons. So by discouraging customers from eating potentially moldy or off food, stores head off multi-million pound lawsuits, and even if the food is moldy, the date is legal evidence they took ‘reasonable steps’ to mitigate possible negligence.

Dates serve a useful purpose, especially in quality control. Use-by dates, although not ‘best before’ dates, caught one manufacturer selling stale, food poisoning inducing chicken. And indeed, the ‘best before’ dates are evidently still useful because Marks and Spencer and their other globalist ilk haven’t actually dropped them, they’re just hiding it from the public whilst using it for themselves. Greedy bastards.

One example is Morrisons. Instead of these potatoes displaying the ‘best before’ (‘display until’, AKA ‘sell by’) date of ‘11 Nov’ (short, obviously, for 11th November), it now says “N11” to try to obscure it from the public:

It seems like a thinly veiled attempt at trying to fulfill the corporate globalist criterion - “removing” the dates - whilst still fulfilling legal obligations (‘well achstaully offisur it waz stil ther!’) and trying to avoid lawsuits; trying to have their stale cake and eat it.

Meanwhile their easily wilted salads that barely last a day still retain their use by dates:

This is because it is a cut and prepared food, and not ‘unprepared’ like the potatoes, and are required by UK law to have a use by date. Essentially the globalists are trying to shoehorn you all into adopting infinity-shelf-life preservative-ridden preprocessed foods, lowering your quality of living whilst blaming the public for food waste.

As someone who has personally done what they could to reduce food waste in society, the proportion blamed on the general public is overwhelmingly misleading, and it is the bastard Corporatists themselves who do most of the waste. The classic example is Krispy Kreme donuts, who make too many donuts, then toss them away at the end of the day:

Some employees will circumvent this and give food to the homeless, but the stores won’t because if they give away the food, firstly it is a lawsuit risk if the person gets food poisoning, becomes severely ill and/or dies, and secondly it discourages customers from buying because they can just wait for the end-of-day freebies, which kills the business model.

This isn’t one Krispy Kreme donut shop. It’s all of them. And it isn’t just Krispy Kreme, either. Every major food store you can think of produces food waste on one level or another.

Back in 2010 as part of a food waste investigation I interviewed a Morrisons store manager and asked them to estimate roughly how much food their one store threw out a day. Not a week nor a month. A day.

The manager estimated it was about 2 tonnes (British tonnes), or roughly two full rubbish bags worth of food. I asked him to estimate roughly how much of that food was edible, and he said about 60%. He remarked the other 40% could have been recycled, insinuating composting or even feed for farm animals.

When I asked him why it wasn’t given away, he explained it was legal risks. He explained a handful of charities who had signed agreements (essentially agreeing not to sue the store) could take some food and then redistribute to the poor - with the charity effectively taking on the legal risk - but highlighted due to the major litigation risks, the stores themselves could not do this.

There are reportedly 497 Morrisons stores in the UK. Assuming all produce similar levels of waste, they would produce 994 rubbish bags worth of food waste daily, or 362,810 in a year, of which 60% - 217,686 bags - would contain edible food. And this is just one supermarket chain in the UK, not including restaurants, schools or other businesses. There are roughly 227,000 homeless people in the UK.

In 2018, Morrisons introduced ‘wonky foods’ where normal fruit and veg that were cosmetically misshapen, were sold for less, reducing the other end of the food waste spectrum - which is the rejection of ‘less than perfect’ goods - one of the few examples of corporate food waste actually being tackled. As of last month, many British people are buying wonky to try to keep costs down.

Rather than address corporate food waste on mass scale, such as telling Krispy Kreme to either make fewer donuts, or introducing legislation exempting free giveaway food from legislation, the WEF would rather trick you, the public, into eating moldy, stale old food than address the real major cause of food waste: globalism itself.

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