Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste

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.

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.

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.

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!