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aHappySacka posted...

If that is already concerning then you don't want to know how much super markets and other stores throw out every day.

The entire food economic system is built around the idea of waste.

adjl posted...

That too. This is, sadly, incredibly normal. Even worse, many of those supermarkets put up fences around their dumpsters and employ security guards to keep people from "stealing" the discarded food. I understand that there are liability concerns when it comes to giving people stuff that "should" be thrown out, but stopping people from voluntarily assuming that risk by taking food out of the dumpster is just plain evil levels of greed.

The problem there is that we live in an overly litigious society where doing something like potentially leaves a business open to liability. Even something like failing to enforce security around dumpsters can be argued in a court as a tacit policy of giving things away, and they could be held liable for not doing more to prevent it.

UT1999 posted...

yeah good point. So you dudes think think if not as much food was thrown out, in the world, then there should be enough food for everyone on the planet so no one would ever go hungry?

Technically no because most starvation issues have more to do with where the excess is vs where the starving people are. Most of the waste is in first-world countries where starving to death is a minimal concern, whereas most of the starvation deaths happen in nations with less waste. The problem of starvation is a lot bigger than what is or isn't thrown out.

PK_Spam posted...

You know as well as I do thats not true.

They want you to pay an arbitrary amount of money to certify your food, and thats more important than actually making sure people eat.

The things you *think* you know are true are just baffling. And keep in mind that most of that red tape is set up by the government itself

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