IP assert: "This food was going to be thrown out & going to waste. We are using it for something!" Article asserts: "That food wasn't being thrown out it was g

IP assert: "This food was going to be thrown out & going to waste. We are using it for something!" Article asserts: "That food wasn't being thrown out it was going to food banks and homeless shelters." So while IP is almost certainly helping the farmers by paying them for produce they can't normally sell they certainly aren't reclaiming mountains of food otherwise destined for rot.