that is great, oh wow, its pig feed now.. at best.

You have to remember these are not ma and pa operations. They are giga factories running out millions of units a year. Given how cheap food is, and HOW MUCH markup comes from finish products, there is no reason for them to fiddle about to deal with literally "out of shape" foods.

Like take potato chips. What, 1-2 potato's tops makes a bag of chips. So $0.05 of potatos on direct from farms bulk pricing, in becomes $5.50 sold products out. That is something like 100x more. They can totally afford to toss 50% of the potatos into the pig-feed bin and sell it off for $0.02 a potato instead of spending $millions per year to hire workers to cut the oddly sized potatoes in half so they fit down the chute of the $50 million dollar potato factory system.

So even if its salvaged somehow, food in the food supply pipeline is being tossed to non-food supply usage.

As opposed to food sitting on grocery store shelves waiting for people to buy it because people are buying to cook at home.

The large waste at food factories is one of the reasons our food supply is so damn expensive. Outside strange situations like islands, the US is the most expensive place in the world to buy food before taxes. Don't you think its odd given how much food the US makes?

White hats want manufactured, corporate food to go away.