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They've been playing a PSA lately saying that "40% of the food produced in America goes to waste". So, on average, people in this country are already spending c
by khedoros1 10y ago
They've been playing a PSA lately saying that "40% of the food produced in America goes to waste". So, on average, people in this country are already spending close to double the amount that they should for food.
So, there's distribution from farm to store to home, but there's a non-existent link out of the home into a second-stage distribution pipeline, or something.
- leereeves 10y agoThis might be the source of that statistic: https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf Only about 25% of the losses (ie 10% of the food) are attributed to "consumer losses".
- jelliclesfarm 10y agoi have a farm and more than 40% never reaches anyone. it is not worth it for me to harvest it even to donate it because the labour would wipe out my profits. but if i let it rot and decompose..make my own compost, there is some value in it for me. isnt that awful? but yea...farming reality. it is what it is..
- khedoros1 10y agoIs that one of the situations where subsidies make it worth it to grow in the first place? Or where growing it as use for fertilizer makes it worthwhile? I'd note that the paper that your sibling comment posted breaks down waste into the different segments of the supply chain. The biggest single chunk looks like they're in the "consumer losses" segment, and that the PSAs I've seen are focused on how to interpret "best by" dates, eating leftovers, and buying only what you need right then, rather than trying to blame farms for waste.