You beat me too it Susie, I was about to post that link myself.  An absolutely disgraceful waste of good food. It seemed ok to sell such produce when bad weather affected harvests but now it's all gone back to the standard practice of dumping everything that isn't 100% perfect. The supermarkets seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what the public do or don't find acceptable and as HFW says......"not that anyone's asked us". What possible difference can the shape of a carrot or parsnip make to it's usefulness or saleability when most of us routinely cut them up before cooking and eating anyway.

A scandalous practice.