Hi, we’re year 4 students from Woodcroft Primary. We would love to help the bananas because if bananas are too small, too big, too fat and even to ugly they are thrown out.
Did you know 40,000 bananas are thrown out each day that is a lot of bananas!!!!
We need to get 100,000 signatures to help the environment and wastage of bananas.
Bananas are Australia’s number one selling supermarket product.
We found out what happens to the bananas that aren’t up to supermarket specifications.
At the farms the bananas are picked in big bunches and then they look at them carefully to see if they are too big, too small, too fat, and even to ugly!!!!
If you sign our banana farm petition it may help us to save the bananas!
All you have to do is sign up and provide us your name and email address
Thank you from Woodcroft Primary School
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/war-on-waste-stor... This is a link if you want to learn more about bananas.
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Fresh fruit and vegetables are a luxury in many countries. Don't take our abundance for granted. Stop the senseless wastage. It's not about how it looks, it's about how it tastes!
It's the big supermarkets that dictate the banana specifications to growers! If the growers challenge big supermarket chains and try to change banana specification requirements, growers risk losing their livelihood through losing supply contracts with supermarket chains resulting in farm workers losing their jobs! Supermarkets will just go and buy from farms who will meet supermarket demands! Supermarkets say that it's the shoppers, you and I, who dictate these banana and any fruit requirements because we won't buy fruit that is 'not quite right'. What can you and I do to effect change?
Save the banana. Since the show was on the television I have noticed that my local Coles has a bigger variety of banana shapes and sizes. I now try to buy the underdogs.
So many banana cakes that could have been made, so many banana smoothies that could have been whizzing around in the blender. Save the banana, the small, the overly large, the ugly. Don't waste food.
Wow, that is 14,600,000 bananas a year, or 1,187,840kg of banana wastage a year.
Thankyou Keira !!! love from lara
save the bananas
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Hi, we’re year 4 students from Woodcroft Primary. We would love to help the bananas because if bananas are too small, too big, too fat and even to ugly they are thrown out.
Did you know 40,000 bananas are thrown out each day that is a lot of bananas!!!!
We need to get 100,000 signatures to help the environment and wastage of bananas.
Bananas are Australia’s number one selling supermarket product.
We found out what happens to the bananas that aren’t up to supermarket specifications.
At the farms the bananas are picked in big bunches and then they look at them carefully to see if they are too big, too small, too fat, and even to ugly!!!!
If you sign our banana farm petition it may help us to save the bananas!
All you have to do is sign up and provide us your name and email address
Thank you from Woodcroft Primary School
http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/war-on-waste-stor... This is a link if you want to learn more about bananas.
37 Comments
Bananas are my favourite, always sure to pick the less nicer looking ones in stores
Fresh fruit and vegetables are a luxury in many countries. Don't take our abundance for granted. Stop the senseless wastage. It's not about how it looks, it's about how it tastes!
It's the big supermarkets that dictate the banana specifications to growers! If the growers challenge big supermarket chains and try to change banana specification requirements, growers risk losing their livelihood through losing supply contracts with supermarket chains resulting in farm workers losing their jobs! Supermarkets will just go and buy from farms who will meet supermarket demands! Supermarkets say that it's the shoppers, you and I, who dictate these banana and any fruit requirements because we won't buy fruit that is 'not quite right'. What can you and I do to effect change?
Save the banana. Since the show was on the television I have noticed that my local Coles has a bigger variety of banana shapes and sizes. I now try to buy the underdogs.
So many banana cakes that could have been made, so many banana smoothies that could have been whizzing around in the blender. Save the banana, the small, the overly large, the ugly. Don't waste food.
Wow, that is 14,600,000 bananas a year, or 1,187,840kg of banana wastage a year.
Thankyou Keira !!! love from lara
save the bananas
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Bananas are my favourite, always sure to pick the less nicer looking ones in stores