re: #423 Killgore Trout

That’s one of the biggest problems with our food industry. The public will only buy “perfect” looking produce. If you’ve ever grown carrots you’ll know that very rarely are the straight and uniform single roots. Potatoes are the same way. All of that cosmetically “imperfect” food can’t be sold and end up in animal feed or just thrown away. There’s a huge amount of waste in modern farming.

Consumer education helps. People will pay more for ugly, good tasting produce if it’s ‘organic’, ‘heritage’, ‘locally grown’, etc. The opposite of the ‘pink slime’ phenomenon. (Notice that when the pink slime hit the fan, nobody brought up the subject of what’s in hot dogs.)