Same in Denmark, this was painful to look at. Especially when you make soup or stock that top is just SO good.

@@GreenLarsen - I think it's a huge issue when the shops get to determine what the "consumer wants", as they never really ask, do they? I bet in DK as in NO you have some weird stuff as well. Here it's said that the consumer doesn't want odd looking vegetables, or small onions. I call BS on that.

@@Qgal5kap123 ohh I agree. That is one of the main downsides of large shops/companyes. Anything that dont fit the norm/size etc is harder to price/transport etc and therefore not something that its worth to sell for them. Alot easyer if everyone just buy the same, that look the same, taste the same etc. It is imo one of the huge benefits with buying localy and directly from the farmer/ficher/..

forgot to ad, downside is naturally that buying localy generally cost abit more

@@GreenLarsen - It actually has annoyed me to the point of buying my own small farm. So now I can pretend I'm Bonderøven and grow my own vegetables. Can't get any more local than that ;-)

I always find it the most useful for stews and soups. They fry up great too.

Whole damned thing is perfectly edible. Same as when people don't eat the broccoli stalks, it's confusing to waste all that.

A friend of mine I cooked with took the two outer layers out and all of the dark green. We bought 3 leeks and ended up with barely enough veg to feed us.

Yes, like carrots! The leafs are edible when it's fresh, and they are phenomenally tasty!!

The tough dark green part is great for being part of a vegetable stock, people may not want to eat it but that doesn't mean they need to waste it, yeesh.

Correct. It's why I don't shop at supermarkets.

exactly, if stores and all the second bits for less cash but just as fresh I would buy it lots of people would but the grocers and farmers wouldn't make as much money, it's the supply and demand thing, the supply can't be too high or else the cost goes down

Not everyone. We buy our veg and fruits from a company that reclaims organic food and resells it.

@@roflstomps324 OK. I never said EVERYONE. That's a resource possibly unavailable to most. I'm sick of retail and popular media passing the buck and failing to acknowledge their contribution to rampant consumerism

@@cassieoz1702 These services are available online. I fully expect them to stutter produce departments soon enough. Five or six years and you will see the change. I get quality organic veg and fruit delivered twice a month for $70. I get over fifty pounds of incredibly expensive food - if I had bought it at the store. All because there's a tiny blemish on an apple. A pepper that isn't perfectly conical. It's great.

@@roflstomps324 i live in a rural area where delivery is unavailable, postage prohibitive and farmer's markets non-existant. I can get some imperfects at the supermarket when I go to town but my gripe with them is that they're barely discounted at all. More like virtue signalling than actually addressing the wastage issue

@@cassieoz1702 It will change in the next few years. I wasn't able to get this until recently. I don't know about virtue signaling. For me, it was about not paying $8.99 for a pound of organic pepper. What a joke. There are systems out there literally taking from the wastage (the company I subscribe to) and selling it for a tidy profit (because it was discarded at a wholesale inspection center) and then sorted and sold to me and delivered. It will come. I have been using it for a year now. As soon as it was available. It will come to you too. There is too much money in reselling free produce for it not to. I know it will because I live in a rural area too. I live in Amish country.

A mix of both I'd say.

Bit of butter salt and pepper great in fish pie 😋

its' waste .... it consumed water to grow .... which could have been used for something else

@@Manish_Kumar_Singh bot.

@@ksc1406 what ?

true but it also requires N to break down, and release methane. It would be more efficiently fed to livestock.

Or people

I grew up in a mountain city, every veg we eat, we also eat the shoots.its a delightful treat specially after a rain they are very plump, best way to eat it is sauteed with a bit of butter salt and pepper

@@nyawja agreed. Best thing to eat are just harvested vegetables. They are super sweet.

sounds good ,,,

classic brit banter

love that!

Underrated😂

Well it does cost a lot of space, machine fuel and intensive labour, this could for instance be invested in renewable energy. If for 100% of the leak would be used, there would be 50% of this space available for biofuel production. :)

@@wietseras9305 what?

How it is not wasted? When you buy a ice cream do throw half on the ground and call it fertilizer?

@@krikukiks It may be wasted as far as consumption, but it isn't wasted like most food, little of it goes to the trash, or landfill. We waste far to much food in general, but at least its going back to nature.

@@krikukiks the ice cream would actually fertilize the ground via the potassium and phosphorus in the milk fron the ice cream. No food is wasted, its either turned to slop/feed or used to mineralize fields or plants

It's wasted because it requires more land to produce a certain amount of leek if two thirds are wasted. Also more man-hours, more diesel etc.

@@krikukiks You obviously do not understand farming/gardening...you can't keep growing things and not replenish the soil with organic matter....that is why farmers use manure/compost or chemical fertilizers (although that does not return organic matter to the soil). Eventually you end up with sterile, dry, hard soil if you do not add organic matter back to the soil...

idk but that would mean more lost jobs....

It may not be good for animals, for example onions and garlic are bad for dogs...leeks being in the same family/genus or whatever the term is. It gets left in the field so I assume they plow it back into the soil to decompose so it is not really a waste. Farmers grow green manure crops to improve the soil as well.

They plough it back into the field to reduce the need for fertilisers

@@modestoca25 Onions are terrible for dogs, I just recently learned that, garlic is in the same family but it good for dogs and people unless something changed in the research recently. 🤓🍻

Mmmm, bacon with onion type flavor already built in. 🤓🍻👍

@@alsaunders7805 garlic is bad for dogs too but not as bad as onions, same plant family. They used to use it in dog food for fleas but I don't see it anymore.

True

And why don't they send the scraps to soup producers e.g? Is it really cheaper to just throw it back in the soil?

through/throw? What is "wook" and "maringues"?

@@modestoca25 Sorry for my spelling, i should have made a bigger effort writing youtube comments 😏. I speak Swedish, English, Spanish and am now focusing on Hindi, but maybe I should study more and one day reach your level of language skills. Nu har jag någon att se upp till, tack! 😙

The shops have seen how people will choose the less bruised apples, unsplit tomatoes, and more uniform veggies almost everytime over the ones imperfections. They've watched it for decades. So yes it is consumer driven. Vast majority of people will chose an unbruised banana over a bruised one everytime.

He could absolutely sell the excess leek parts to some other form of production but I would guess there are two reasons he doesn't. Any company who uses leeks in production of ready meals or similar want the whole thing as the brighter part of the leek generally has a more intense flavour and the prices they are offered are probably low enough that it is more profitable to just use it as compost for future growing. As someone who works in supermarkets (specifically mostly in produce) I can tell you that we throw away insane amounts of leek regularly as many customers (less than most but still many) actually twist off the green part of the leek and leave it in the store. This happens a lot more when it is sold by weight than when priced individually but it still happens even when priced individually (probably due to habit or just laziness). Now there is an entirely separate discussion around the source of the general public's ignorance, but in general it is things like this that inform companies about what the "people" want. You vote what you want by purchasing it. Selling broccoli with a much smaller stem would stop if people bought the one with the stem, but they don't, so no the farmers cut off most of the stem before shipping because it is what sells.

There's probably a need for enhancing the gene in that case!

@@dall3n88 I think this is also has some cultural / ethnical background ties, coming from eastern europe you could never waste food and leeks (or idk broccoli, cauliflower) were always used to their maximum output since we never had enough food in general. It's true consumers vote with their wallet, and most firms are solely profit seeking despite what is taught in business management courses, but we can't blame the guy solely when there's clear data that people want perfectly shaped easy to use clean veggies. There's many stories of Chinese people moving to Japan for example and being amazed at how easy it is to cook since you don't have to wash dried dirt from your carrots, meat is packed and already cut etc.

Lmao

That means people will not buy it for the same price when compare to another leek with those stuff cut. That's what "it is what the consumer wants" means.

It is wasted water! A lot of energy/fuel was used to purify that water! Toilets could use brown water ( ie water used to wash food) instead of drinkable water! It is wasted food, Compost is not for feeding livestock.....it will make the animals sick.... compost is for soil......and you don’t throw away perfectly edible vegetables for compost.... it takes huge amounts of energy/fuel to mine or chemically synthesize fertilizers for our farms..

@@jimliu2560 what doesn't become compost, becomes slop which is fed to pigs or to pellet which are fed to all different animals

@@mikeyvesperlick6982 No. Food for pigs for example, the veggies need to be fresh and then cooked. You CanNot feed animals rotten, spoiled veggies!

Europeans don't admit that they just like to point fingers at Americans and judge...

He can invite us to his field anytime!! We should serve our selves directly 👍 to take care of the left over, and not packaged veggies

@@saraouguerd8018 Definitely 😅 Everyday veggie dish