Food Porn
Hey, food can be ugly and yet still edible, argues this article. Photoshopped, glossy pics of food in magazines falsely links food’s appearance to its flavor and goodness. The effect of this? “…most of the food we toss, perhaps one-fifth of the harvest, is wasted simply because it disappoints visual expectations of proper size, shape, style, colour and absolute perfection. It must have no holes, no blotches, no signs of wear and tear and, above all, no suggestion that it came from the ground, which is dirty.”