Tesco - Turning Surplus Food into Animal Feed

Bogweevil

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Tesco Takes Bold Step: Turning Surplus Food into Animal Feed to Combat Waste

Tesco will open a new facility that turns its surplus food into animal feed, and has the capacity to process 1,000 tonnes of excess food every week.


I thought they already did this to make economy pizza but apparently not.
 

yoki

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Used to be a thing on the market over here called "sweet mix", sold by Britmilk if I recall correctly.

It was broken biscuits and such like.

Never used it myself and no idea what became of it.
 

delilah

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Colleague of mine, back in the day she found herself to be a single mum with no money. She would walk her 5 yr old down the road to the greengrocers at closing time on Saturday and ask if they could have any unsold veg for the girls rabbit. The shopkeeper knew the game at play. They would walk home with a bag full of veg, a carrot would go to the rabbit and the rest was their veg for the week.
That greengrocers is long gone. If a single mum today caught two buses to get to the nearest out of town superstore and asked the lad on the checkout for some veg for the rabbit, he would look at her as if she were a swivel eyed loon and hit the under the counter panic button.
Instead we have bollox schemes like this, hauling food the length and breadth of the UK to Northampton. We have fecked our food system and in doing so fecked society.
 

yin ewe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Co Antrim
Didn't this happen for hundreds of years, and it was called "swill"....?
A bit like the old grocery vans and bread vans that used to come around the countryside, put out of business cos they couldn't compete with the supermarkets and next thing tesco et al put them back on the road bringing food to our door, all in the name of convenience of course.🤷‍♂️
 
Location
southwest
Talk about hypocrisy!

Supermarkets must be the prime drivers in food waste with their ridiculous "Best before" and "Use by" policies and their refusal to take veg that is less than "perfect."

Lots of "waste" already goes into animal feed-I worked for a well know Compounder and most of the ingredients are waste products from the food and drink industry--biscuit meal, wheat feed, beet pulp, breakfast cereal waste, rapeseed meal etc. not forgetting our old friends PK and soya bean meal. Then there's various waste products of the brewing industry-brewers grains, draff etc.

Tesco certainly can't teach farmers anything about utilising food waste!
 

DaveGrohl

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Cumbria
Tesco Takes Bold Step: Turning Surplus Food into Animal Feed to Combat Waste

Tesco will open a new facility that turns its surplus food into animal feed, and has the capacity to process 1,000 tonnes of excess food every week.


I thought they already did this to make economy pizza but apparently not.
Revolutionise 👀
:X3:
 

glasshouse

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Location
lothians
Colleague of mine, back in the day she found herself to be a single mum with no money. She would walk her 5 yr old down the road to the greengrocers at closing time on Saturday and ask if they could have any unsold veg for the girls rabbit. The shopkeeper knew the game at play. They would walk home with a bag full of veg, a carrot would go to the rabbit and the rest was their veg for the week.
That greengrocers is long gone. If a single mum today caught two buses to get to the nearest out of town superstore and asked the lad on the checkout for some veg for the rabbit, he would look at her as if she were a swivel eyed loon and hit the under the counter panic button.
Instead we have bollox schemes like this, hauling food the length and breadth of the UK to Northampton. We have fecked our food system and in doing so fecked society.
“We” have not fecked the food system, tescos et al have.
 

Bald Rick

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Moderator
Location
Anglesey
Used to be a thing on the market over here called "sweet mix", sold by Britmilk if I recall correctly.

It was broken biscuits and such like.

Never used it myself and no idea what became of it.

Got 25t sitting in the feed store as I type. Branded Formula One and sold by KW.

Beware of greedy dogs though. Swells in the stomach
 

Bald Rick

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Moderator
Location
Anglesey
Colleague of mine, back in the day she found herself to be a single mum with no money. She would walk her 5 yr old down the road to the greengrocers at closing time on Saturday and ask if they could have any unsold veg for the girls rabbit. The shopkeeper knew the game at play. They would walk home with a bag full of veg, a carrot would go to the rabbit and the rest was their veg for the week.
That greengrocers is long gone. If a single mum today caught two buses to get to the nearest out of town superstore and asked the lad on the checkout for some veg for the rabbit, he would look at her as if she were a swivel eyed loon and hit the under the counter panic button.
Instead we have bollox schemes like this, hauling food the length and breadth of the UK to Northampton. We have fecked our food system and in doing so fecked society.

Except these days it would be the nearest food bank.
Britain's shameful secret
 


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