40-50% of All Food in America Goes to Waste
That’s right. I was watching the news the other morning and there was a story about a challenge to buy nothing for a month, a form of “Freeganism.” A woman who took the challenge showed how she found perfectly good food thrown out every day by grocery stores. She found hundreds of warm bagels, sealed salads, cereal, canned goods, toilet paper, and lots of eggs in dumpsters. You know who’s to blame for this waste? The consumer for one. We’re so spoiled we don’t like anything that is a day old. Shelf space is limited. The food gets tossed.
This is absolutely immoral to me. People are starving and we toss 40-50% of our food? Here I am blogging about ethanol using up our precious land space, urban sprawl taking up more, fires burning through pastures of crops and we simply end up throwing it away.
When I think of all those overloaded CAFO’s and pictures of dead pigs stacked up outside in a pile that lived a dreadful life then died for no reason it is immoral also. We simply overproduce if we’re throwing that much away. There needs to be a change in the tax structure where write offs for loss are less lucrative than write offs for charity.
I bet we throw away and waste enough in this country to feed a third world nation, not to mention plant flowers, shrubs, and trees all over to make it look good. There is a lot of waste in that industry also. Her testimony ended when she showed 40 people having a full barbeque with all the trimmings from what was found in dumpsters. I forgot to mention whole rotisserie chickens were in there too. She said based on what’s thrown away, someone can live a full life. We need so much reorganization of everything in this country it is outright daunting. Stay tuned tomorrow for more about the concept of “Freeganism.”