No vegetable's perfect!

I would like to mention culinary misfits. Der Spiegel (Germany) published an article about them; they are vegetables and fruits that have some aesthetic fault (asymmetric apples, two- or three legged carrots etc.). Around 25 – 50 % of the entire vegetable harvest on a small/normal sized vegetable farm in Germany (I think this information is transferable to a lot of other countries or fruit farming as well) would be useless in the point of view of the farmer, since retailers i.e. supermarkets wouldn’t buy them. The consumers- we people- don’t want to buy products that are out of our standard norms, it’s simple as that. Note that there is no health risk in eating a two-legged carrot or a crooked cucumber! 

These farms experience a financial loss in culinary misfits. They end up most likely being chucked away or fed to animals etc.

So what can we do about it? First of all I as a consumer need to change my attitude and be ready to pick the ugly vegetable instead of the perfect one. This entire problem is based on the ideal of perfect looks and life created by the society. But it doesn’t have anything to do with the reality - especially in this instance it is rather ridiculous! 

Now we have the problem that there are no culinary misfits ending up in the supermarkets… Any ideas out there?

Check out a German idea of cooking with culinary misfits: http://culinarymisfits.de/