The Great Food Waste Scandal

An Evening Standard investigation's revealed a staggering 2.9 million tons of good-to-eat farm produce is being dumped in landfill, incinerated or sent to waste treatment plants that produce biogas as soaring numbers of people go hungry nationwide.  In this episode of The Leader podcast, our Investigations Editor, David Cohen tells us what he's discovered, and how a crisis is leading to children and mothers resorting to shoplifting to feed themselves.  We also speak to the CEO of food redistribution charity FareShare, George Wright, who is calling for government subsidies to help the farming industry cover the cost of extracting surplus crops to be sent to people who need them.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.