Exactly, nothing about capitalism is efficient and it never was. Capitalism is brutally effective at producing large quantities of stuff, but that doesn’t mean the waste is mitigated at all. In fact, the waste correlates with production.
Food waste is good so we have more stuff than we need. Otherwise when the next volcano erupts it’s famine time again (just look it up, it has happened at least 10 times during the last 2000 years and each time it caused a famine).
Sorry but I do t want to visit you at home. Further I don’t have to, I am in a civilized country where supermarkets are required to give their surplus away for free
Wow this is insane as in wonderful! Where do you live I want to move there! Best I’ve seen around here is lower price on stuff I “save” (as in buying yesterdays bread or greens for a lower price) fully on the markets whim, but “required to give away” is really next level! Do you know how that went through, how I pitch this to my politicians?
At least in my local community supermarkets started to give away food that was on the best before date or with a high discount (30-90%) depends heavily on the cost though. Bananas for example are often free while oranges are just heavily reduced. Cheese and similar products have the lowest reduction in my experience.
Exactly, nothing about capitalism is efficient and it never was. Capitalism is brutally effective at producing large quantities of stuff, but that doesn’t mean the waste is mitigated at all. In fact, the waste correlates with production.
Food waste is good so we have more stuff than we need. Otherwise when the next volcano erupts it’s famine time again (just look it up, it has happened at least 10 times during the last 2000 years and each time it caused a famine).
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
That’s what a surplus is for not foodwaste.
What’s the difference if your food has an expiration date?
Every food surplus is foodwaste and vice versa
Definitely no.
Okay well you can go to the landfill and eat from there then you’ll never pay for food ever again
Sorry but I do t want to visit you at home. Further I don’t have to, I am in a civilized country where supermarkets are required to give their surplus away for free
Yeah and surplus is still not waste
Wow this is insane as in wonderful! Where do you live I want to move there! Best I’ve seen around here is lower price on stuff I “save” (as in buying yesterdays bread or greens for a lower price) fully on the markets whim, but “required to give away” is really next level! Do you know how that went through, how I pitch this to my politicians?
Well I kinda don’t want to, due to minimizing my digital footprint but here is a paper of different states that did it and it even has some recommendations for lawmakers https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368501454_Anti-food_Waste_Laws_A_Comparative_Analysis
At least in my local community supermarkets started to give away food that was on the best before date or with a high discount (30-90%) depends heavily on the cost though. Bananas for example are often free while oranges are just heavily reduced. Cheese and similar products have the lowest reduction in my experience.
Totally understand the digital footprint thing, I still got examples of places, including source, really nice :D.