VIDEO: Feed the City - Waste not, want not, is an appetising policy

Over 5,000 free curries will be dished out in Cork to highlight how much food is still wasted, writes Joe McNamee

Next Saturday, two 1,000 litre pots will be fired up on Cork City’s Grand Parade to cook a free vegetarian curry for 5,000 people.

Using perfectly edible vegetables otherwise earmarked as waste, the event is part of the new Cork Food Policy Council’s first proper public engagement and is designed to highlight the extraordinary volumes of food waste each year in Ireland and around the world.