Thank you for posting, Dr. B!

…Ugly food, by and large, is not being collectively hauled to a landfill and poured into a great trench in the earth…Overall, the biggest contributors to food waste are actually the end-user waste, immigration and labour issues, and climate change”

Divyaa Kumar’s linked article explains that “food is only thrown out when it is entirely inedible i.e. rotten. Those lumpen potatoes are actually just separated from the prettier ones, and trucked off elsewhere to get sliced, diced, fried and floured…

For context, Odd Bunch is a Canadian grocery delivery service claiming to “save” misshapen but perfectly edible fruits and vegetables from the landfill by purchasing it from farmers and selling to consumers.
Advertised as a solution to food insecurity and food waste.

A timely recommendation! I’m currently in Mumbai and have been noticing a lot more bikers and bike shops in my neighbourhood 😌

Love this! I’m an early PhD student in sociology planning to study intersections of migration, climate advocacy, and feminism. Excited to follow the work y’all are doing!