Why, as a Christian, I won't buy reduced food

Natalie Williams on how your weekly shop could look different if you applied the Old Testament principle of gleaning

In the Old Testament, care for those who were struggling economically was central to how the people of God were to flourish and be set apart from other people groups.

One law concerned gleaning. As crops were gathered up, some would fall by the wayside. Farmers might be tempted to go back and pick up as much as possible, but God said not to (Leviticus 19:9-10). Instead, anything that wasn’t gathered up the first time was to be left for widows, orphans, foreigners and those in poverty.