Ugly Food Movement

In the article “WHy People Are Falling in Love With ‘Ugly Food’” written by Dan Mitchell, he said that the Ugly Food Movement started 2014 have been really successful in Europe and Australia. He claimed that a major cause of food waste is the stubbornness of consumers in developed countries expect every food product to be “perfect-looking”. Tesco, the biggest British grocer, sells its “wonky” foods successfully in parts of Europe, but hasn’t been really successful in its home country and said that the the British people simply aren’t ready for “wonky” food. However, Mitchell believe that ugly food will be bigger than organic food because it is cheaper than mainstream price rather than more expensive. Although the movement had started in Europe in 2014, America is just finally starting to think about it. As a fellow American, Mitchell believe that instead of throwing away the food, …show more content…
Does it mean to act and behave the same as other in order to not stand out? Or does it mean to adopt the acts and behaviors of those who are respected as more civil? Either way, the people of developed countries are depicted to be the elite that only buy and eat the best of the best. Assuming that even the elites also have human feelings, I can infer that they can care for other humans, especially if the other humans are children. If the other humans were to be senile civilians, I still think there is still pity. However, it is because the other humans are not humans that caused the elites to easily throw them away, i.e. ugly food. Furthermore, it seems that the philosophy of desiring to fitting in and be accepted by others is universally relative. Then I’ll assume both cases presented above to be culturally relative in modern day. With that assumption, I conclude the emotion that allow the moral agent to oppose fitting in with others is the kind of pity that develop into anger. The anger to fight for and protect the