"Unfortunate-looking" fruits and vegetables will no longer face discrimination in Europe, where a ban on the sale of misshapen produce was repealed on Wednesday.
Shape standards, which prohibited curved, knobby or otherwise different-looking fruits vegetables from going to market, will no longer be enforced come next July. The unpopular law had meant that oddly curved bananas and bulbous carrots would simply be thrown away by vendors looking to avoid fines. As food prices have risen in recent months, it became hard to avoid acknowledging the, uh, complete stupidity of these laws.
"It makes no sense to throw perfectly good products away, just because they are the 'wrong' shape," said Mariann Fischer Boel, European Commissioner of Agriculture. Amen to that.
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