Originally Posted by
bunyip
This happens for two reasons.
1. Supermarket buyers scr3w1ng the primary producers, like the way they sell milk for less than the ost of production. Buying from supermarkets gives us a short term benefit, but eventually results in farmland and habitats being lost, because farmers are better off selling the countryside for new housing developments.
2. A recent middle-class cache for using markets, farm shops, etc.
If you use a greengrocer or stall regularly and juice your fruit, ask them to save you the damaged/bruised/browned fruit, often referred to in the trade as 'touched' fruit. Just fun out the brown bits and away you go. We did thus in the greengrocer' where I worked weekends whilst at college. Sold it for next to nothing as a desirable alternative to throwing away lots of edible fruit just because it didn't appeal to the eye.