Every year, Americans throw out tons of food, translating to billions of dollars lost and millions of meals winding up in landfills or otherwise wasted.
It’s something that continues to be of concern in the United States, with some studies indicating a broad range of environmental impacts from the amount of food waste that ends up in landfills, including air pollutants, soil and water quality degradation, and more.
4 chickens in the back yard would solve the waste food problem and supply eggs.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, my friend gardens and I get the spoils. In turn I give them fresh eggs. And the chickens will eat dang near everything.
DeleteProbably accurate.
DeleteMy Grandpa was a custodian for an elementary school; he raised a couple of hogs every year feeding them on what was thrown away at school.
With a bigger pen, could have raised more.
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speculative bs
ReplyDeleteEvidenced by the fact that the article was written by a young woman in her 20s with very little life experience whose name is Sierra Rains.
DeleteI would suggest Ms. Rains was previously a young skull full of mush whose brain has been shaped, flaked and molded by both a public school system and a public university system. Change my mind.
Even the food that gets processed for the needy people dies on the trucks too. Never makes it. A lot of the sandwiches delivered to the illegals got tossed becuase it was not culturally what they wanted. Food waste will always be there.
ReplyDeleteI worked at a local grocery store. The amount of edible food being thrown out was heart breaking. They use to donate it to a soup kitchen. Someone ate a bad something and had the shits. Sued the store. That put an end to the food being donated. Worked at a farm, yrs ago, remember the term "gleaners?" Poor people picking what was left behind, as in, not good for the market, but edible. Gov laws and lawyers put an end to that.
ReplyDeleteNot completely. A lot of the farmers in the San Joaquin Valley leave the first 3 rows of their crops, leaving it for the gleaners.
DeleteI think the people have been cultivated to not accept spots on fruit and vegetables. Of course everything has a best use date so people think of as expiry.
DeleteI used to buy bushels of fruit tossed out by the grocery store. Still good but wouldn't sell because, say spots on apples.
I'd make fruit pies to sell to restaurants. I followed best practices put out by county health dept and my kitchen was spotless so fugedaboudit.
America inherited the ancient rule of gleaning. AFAIK, gleaning is still practiced. Just tell the small mind dictators where to get off.
So I could pick a red tomato. That is amazing.
DeleteMy grandmother was responsible for making the 'Senior Gleaners' a program in California. Tough old bitch, mean as hell. But she got lots of companies to provide their throwaway products for the seniors, too.
DeleteThe wife gets boxes of the vegetables from the local grocery store that are "out of date" so to speak, 4 bucks each. Some of them I can barely lift they are stuffed so full.
DeleteWhat doesn't get canned, frozen, or dehydrated goes to the livestock.
Waste not, want not.
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Don't worry. Kamalalala will make sure there won't be enough food to go around. No food? No leftovers.
ReplyDeleteLong live Kamalalala
Who will be dining on Wagyu Steaks while the rest of us starve.
DeleteIt's a Big Club and... well, you know.
Horse manure!
ReplyDelete110 years ago our small Sierra town had an ordinance. Residents without chickens had to pay the trash collector. Families with chickens, trash pickup wasn't necessary.
ReplyDeleteIn southern Arizona, local groups will hand out vegetables from a tractor trailer. These vegetables come from Mexico and were destined for the east coast but for whatever reason they are too ripe to make the trip. Instead of paying to take them to the dump, they are donated to the surrounding communities.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with eating out of a garbage can if you're careful.
ReplyDeleteDid we pay for it? Then it's ours to throw out, burn, bury, or feed to hogs. That food 'waste' also generated millions of cubic feet of biogas a year at landfills, a good deal of which is trapped and used to generate electricity... unintended consequences.
ReplyDeleteOur creator purposefully extravagant in everything - stars, planets, trees, water, fruit bearing bushes, animals, you name it. There is really no such thing as food waste - our planet is continually recycling everything, over and over again.
ReplyDeleteThanks to our American farmers. May they continue to prosper. That means we continue to eat well.
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