French courgette growers urge consumers to accept wonky veg
Caroline and Cyril Roux, whose organic (biologique) farm is in Lafrançaise, complained that they must let hundreds of perfectly-edible yellow courgettes go to waste every week because the vegetables do not live up to the high standards of consumers, who, they allege, demand no green patches, no odd shapes, or any other defects.
Writing on Facebook on Sunday, the couple also included a photograph of a generous pile of their organic yellow courgettes, some of which are long and others a little more rounded, which the family say represents part of their crop which has been "rejected from the organic greengrocer's casting" of perfect yellow courgettes.
They asked if consumers would consider the fact that, even when a vegetable is not perfect, it has been cared for and harvested by real people trying to make a living to support their families, and that the flavour of a less attractive vegetable is the same as other more attractive "top models".
source: connexionfrance.com
