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Asshole? Why? What harm or pain did Ed cause to anyone by throwing the food away?
by gjm11 10y ago
Asshole? Why? What harm or pain did Ed cause to anyone by throwing the food away?
- msie 10y agoSeems disrespectful to poor, starving people.
- seansoutpost 10y agoThis country (USA) throws away $537 Billion retail in food annually. I don't think it's just this guy.
- drakonandor 10y agoDoes trash really have a $ value? ;)
- linkregister 10y ago1. 40% of food in the U.S. is discarded. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf 2. Much food is never harvested. A large portion of it is also never taken to market due to blemishes. http://californiawatch.org/health-and-welfare/food-waste-remains-persistent-problem-farms-grocery-stores-and-restaurants http://californiawatch.org/health-and-welfare/food-waste-rem... 3. Supermarkets discard about 1/3 of their food due to spoilage, blemishes, and overripeness. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/25/351495274/supermarkets-waste-tons-of-food-as-they-woo-shoppers http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/25/351495274/sup...
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- nicky0 10y agoIs this low, high or average compared to other countries?
- slavik81 10y agoIt's fairly normal. In the first world, we waste a lot of food because consumers can afford to be picky or forgetful. In the third world, they waste a lot of food because storage and distribution infrastructure is worse.
- Banthum 10y agoMultiplying together, only about 30% of the food grown is actually consumed? Is that really true? Whoa if so. Oddly enough, it kind of makes me feel better about food security.
- brianwawok 10y agoI think even bigger is the 10:1 gains or more you lose feeding crops to animals. If we all went vegan we would almost instantly double our food supply. Spoiler: I eat meat
- altcognito 10y agoFood that doesn't make it for human consumption at the farm/factory level often finds its way as animal feed.
- altcognito 10y agoFood that doesn't make it for human consumption at the farm/factory level often finds its way as animal feed.
- msie 10y agoI'm puzzled by your response. You list some stats about waste and that justifies what the guy is doing? Of course it's probably hyperbole but people are working hard to defend this guy's statement.
- apatters 10y agoIt seems like a growing number of comments on Hacker News are of this virtue signalling, amplify the problem but offer no solutions variety. This is not the hacker ethos. The hacker looks at your parent and says woah -- grocers throw away 30% of food? There's a startup opportunity. And when they succeed they accomplish more than all the hand wringing in the world about someone else not doing their part.
- comboy 10y agoWith this kind of logic, flushing your toilet is disrespectful to people in Africa with limited access to drinkable water.
- msie 10y agoWell, it is. So don't be wasting water unnecessarily. If you spent time and money eating at McDonald's why would you throw it away? Our society wastes a lot for sure so try not to. Don't go to McDonald's in the first place.
- comboy 10y agoIf you bought this burger, you already gave back to society by paying for it. It has zero influence on the rest of the society whether it goes through your belly or not before being disposed.
- csorrell 10y agoWe don't have a water shortage problem just like we don't have a food shortage problem. We have a water/food distribution problem. Throwing away a burger in the US takes nothing away from Africa.
- komali2 10y agoRespectful sure, but I could argue I'm disrespectful to the world's poor every time I light a joint, kick back on my couch, pig out on taco Bell, and watch Vikings in my air conditioned condo.
- msie 10y agoNot the same. You are not throwing out your Taco Bell after the first bite.
- komali2 10y agoI disagree that it's not the same. 1. Whether or not I eat the food is irrelevant to the poor. 2. The amount of food I order is completely up to me. I usually order, and eat, more than I need to survive (because I'm stoned). I revel in the decadence and my ability to buy and eat so much food I'm disgustingly full. I could argue that I do this to "flaunt" my wealth and privilege. (really, I do it because I grew up dirt poor and hungry, so I gain inordinate pleasure from excess. Probably unhealthy, but it's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to)
- mpeg 10y agoAs Dave Chapelle would put it; you can't do comparative suffering. There might be people starving in Africa, but I still want my lunch.
- pc86 10y agoOnly if you threw it away instead of giving it to a poor, starving person. Between two choice of eating it or throwing it out, neither affects the hungry any more than the other.
- aquadrop 10y agoIs opening a window in a too hot room disrespectful to those who are freezing on the north pole?
- logfromblammo 10y agoThe temperature of food can be easily changed with the ubiquitous household appliances called "refrigerator" and "microwave oven". And it isn't as though a drop in temperature of 5 degrees changes the flavor. It's like throwing your pants away because you spilled ketchup on them, or throwing your car away because it ran out of gas--trivial issue, easily remedied. Besides that, McDonald's corporate considers the service temperature of their food to be deadly serious. Complaining to the management with cold food and receipt in hand would almost certainly generate an overly obsequious response sufficient to satisfy even the grumpiest of customers. If not, going to management above the restaurant would probably get everyone at the restaurant re-trained right quick.
- ergothus 10y ago> And it isn't as though a drop in temperature of 5 degrees changes the flavor. Leaving aside the rest of the discussion, and not even addressing if throwing it out was good/fine, this line stood out to me. I often feel that temperature changes the taste. More obvious in ranges > 5 degrees, but still noticeable at that range. Given how subjective taste is, it's hard to prove, though I'm sure some neurologist has hooked a pig or chimp up to try and measure the "taste" reaction. My two questions for you are: * Do you feel temperature has no real (direct) effect on taste, or only in larger swings than 5 degrees * Do you have any reason for your above statement than your own experiences? (not a criticism, curiousity)
- Retric 10y agoIt's well known that the current temperature changes the taste. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/temperature-can-effect-intensity-and-flavor-of-tastes_n_1529944.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/temperature-can-eff... But, I think his comment was changing the temperature is easy, and having food get cold does not change the taste after reheating. However, there is a large food safety issue with how long food stays between 40f and 140f, which is probably the root cause of this policy.
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