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Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment.
Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment.
Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards, according to official data and interviews with dozens of farmers, packers, truckers, researchers, campaigners and government officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect
Perhaps a new platform for the anti SNAP/anti feeding the hungry crowd could be pushing through laws stating that the poor and hungry must harvest fields of food if they want to eat..
yeah I figured you'd think that's a good idea. Get the elderly, disabled and little children out there too. Let em' work for that handout. Damn moochers.Wow, not a bad idea. It's what we used to do when I was a young one. For a little work in the field we came away with months work of meals. In fact there are gleaning groups all over now.
Well, when you're on a tight food budget, which apple are you going to buy, the one that looks to be perfect or the one that is not yet ripe and has a worm hole?
The problem might be distribution. Or that by discounting the imperfect, the farmer mindset might be that he is undercutting his own crop.
Prisons don't care about produce cosmetics. Why would homes, homeless shelters, schools, our military, any institution that preps food out of the public eye?
I think there's more to this problem than meets the eye, frankly.
yeah I figured you'd think that's a good idea. Get the elderly, disabled and little children out there too. Let em' work for that handout. Damn moochers.
The problem might be distribution. Or that by discounting the imperfect, the farmer mindset might be that he is undercutting his own crop.
Prisons don't care about produce cosmetics. Why would nursing homes, homeless shelters, schools, our military, any institution that preps food out of the public eye?
I think there's more to this problem than meets the eye, frankly.
It basically comes down to cost of transportation and government regulations. In order to utilize it has to be moved further much of the produce has a limited shelf life and requires refrigeration. This limits options of what you can do with it. There is also government regulations that are not very forgiving as well.
I don't understand why produce fed to livestock is considered a negative though.
Perhaps a new platform for the anti SNAP/anti feeding the hungry crowd could be pushing through laws stating that the poor and hungry must harvest fields of food if they want to eat..
Where are you getting that? Figuring in the protein of the worm aren't you? :mrgreen:
yeah I figured you'd think that's a good idea. Get the elderly, disabled and little children out there too. Let em' work for that handout. Damn moochers.
On the contrary, my mother had me washing out my own laundry in the bathtub over one of those old-fashioned scrubboards. I'm just fortunate enough to have the ability to sympathize and empathize with people. Something that seems to be a lacking trait of those who lean right.You must have really lived a pampered life for one I always thought to be about my age (65). Bet you never had to shuck an ear in your life.
Actually that aint a half bad idea. A little work doesn't hurt anyone. Picking your own vegetables and fruit is a very
On the contrary, my mother had me washing out my own laundry in the bathtub over one of those old-fashioned scrubboards. I'm just fortunate enough to have the ability to sympathize and empathize with people. Something that seems to be a lacking trait of those who lean right.
Maybe take a step further and indenture them. Until every penny that they've taken from taxpayers for food has been repaid..
On the contrary, my mother had me washing out my own laundry in the bathtub over one of those old-fashioned scrubboards. I'm just fortunate enough to have the ability to sympathize and empathize with people. Something that seems to be a lacking trait of those who lean right.
Face it, you want the control involved in giving the man a fish. Heaven forbid he should learn to fish and not need your "sympathy".
Food is genetically modified to last longer and sell by looking / tasting good, the nutritional value is declining.
Like everything else in a Capitalist society they only thing that really matters is profit.
Worms are very nutritious.
Modern Fruits and Vegetables Are Less Nutritious
Your sympathy/empathy is broken. It's not meant to be a substitute for actual help. The Sally Struthers approach isn't cutting it. What's your problem with gleaning? My guess is that you don't understand that people do that, have always done that and the modern "sympathetic" approach often takes that option off the table.
Face it, you want the control involved in giving the man a fish. Heaven forbid he should learn to fish and not need your "sympathy".
It basically comes down to cost of transportation and government regulations. In order to utilize it has to be moved further much of the produce has a limited shelf life and requires refrigeration. This limits options of what you can do with it. There is also government regulations that are not very forgiving as well.
I don't understand why produce fed to livestock is considered a negative though.
Food is genetically modified to last longer and sell by looking / tasting good, the nutritional value is declining.
Like everything else in a Capitalist society they only thing that really matters is profit.
Worms are very nutritious.
Modern Fruits and Vegetables Are Less Nutritious
On the contrary, my mother had me washing out my own laundry in the bathtub over one of those old-fashioned scrubboards. I'm just fortunate enough to have the ability to sympathize and empathize with people. Something that seems to be a lacking trait of those who lean right.
That is the liberal trap.
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