Mon Jul 20, 2015, 12:30 PM
Alittleliberal (528 posts)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don’t eat.
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Alittleliberal | Jul 2015 | OP |
Renew Deal | Jul 2015 | #1 | |
Erich Bloodaxe BSN | Jul 2015 | #2 | |
pansypoo53219 | Jul 2015 | #3 | |
panfluteman | Jul 2015 | #4 | |
Duppers | Jul 2015 | #5 |
Response to Alittleliberal (Original post)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 12:37 PM
Renew Deal (80,000 posts)
1. Just finished watching "Just Eat It" on MSNBC
Response to Alittleliberal (Original post)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 12:37 PM
Erich Bloodaxe BSN (14,733 posts)
2. I feel like going to one of those places where you're supposed to write a little message about how
you've made a change to stop wasting food and write things like
I've made the '5 second rule' the '5 minute rule' or I dumpster dive my own garbage can. I know it's a serious topic, but it's just ripe for making people feel smug about tiny things. |
Response to Alittleliberal (Original post)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 02:52 PM
pansypoo53219 (19,586 posts)
3. since leftovers went to die in the freezer, tho my mom was eating mystery containers.
but we trash very little food. + we will get ugly stuff at farmers market. one year apples were hit by hail storms. but for cooking anyways. leftovers are the best things.
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Response to Alittleliberal (Original post)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 04:24 PM
panfluteman (1,854 posts)
4. I suppose there's a lot of wasted food over here in Romania as well...
It's summer now, and just the other day, I ate some chicken that smelled a little funny when I cut it up to cook it - probably started spoiling in the hot weather we've been having here lately. Anyway, I started getting sick and having symptoms of digestive distress, but luckily I had some good herbal remedies on hand to deal with it. After taking them and eating extremely lightly for dinner, I was able to get over it - just had a couple of loose and stinky bowel movements the next morning.
Anyway - I wonder if the Bernie Sanders campaign has looked into better facilitation of food donations as a way of ending hunger in the US. Someone should definitely make that recommendation to them. Definitely, I think that all developed nations probably have a large food waste problem. After treating their own bodies as trashcans by eating a lot of questionable junk food that they probably shouldn't eat, Americans add insult to injury by then throwing a lot more food away - which may even be of better quality than a lot of the crap they wind up eating, ironically. And then the landfills happily fart away with a whole $#*+load of methane, which puts a real hefty spike into global warming. And the whole cosmic wheel comes full circle. |
Response to Alittleliberal (Original post)
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 11:07 AM
Duppers (24,693 posts)
5. Shameful the amounts of food Americans throw away
3 nights ago I was in a 7-11 at 4am and saw the clerk trashing dozens of pastries. I asked if I could have a stale donut and to my surprise he gave me one!
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