We waste food that could feed 180 million people

Huge amounts of spoilt vegetables are discarded each day at markets such as the Selayang wholesale market. Photo: Filepic

I hate seeing food go to waste. Growing up, I was expected to finish the food that I had put on my plate. I pretty much still hold to that rule with my own children.

My father-in-law is another extreme. He loves food; he’ll do justice to any meal and hates wasting any morsel of good food. Or even bad food for that matter – he’ll cut off the mouldy parts of cheese and eat the rest. British environment minister Liz Truss recently said she would do exactly the same.