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Until you, mschuster91, figure out how to get rid of food waste and fossil fuels, id rather half the world not starve.

lucidguppy 3y ago
Freeze more meat and veg. Puree or dehydrate the ugly stuff. Educate people on how to not overbuy and how to fucking cook. You can't eliminate food waste - but many well off Americans have no clue about how to properly feed themselves while minimizing waste.
- mkoubaa 3y ago
  I'm very passionate about food waste, and I agree with your assessment. But "educating people at scale" is not a problem that humanity has solved yet.
mschuster91 3y ago
Y'all could just look at Europe. The US wastes approximately 40% (!!!) of their entire production [1], Europe only around 20% [2]. The average American drives 21.000 km/a, Europeans ~15.000. If you need it spelled out what you need to do: limit portion sizes in restaurants (where a lot of the food waste happens, also contributing to the insane rat infestation issues [3]) by law since Americans seem to love extensive portions, educate people how to cook and how to plan cooking, ban ultra large food packaging that no reasonable family can use before the product goes bad, and introduce actual public transit on all levels from local over regional to interstate to reduce your dependency on fossil fuels. As for food waste in developing countries, it would be a good starter idea to invest into electrical grids and microgrids, it's hard to keep food from perishing when you don't have a stable grid to run a fridge. But that's a monumental task that needs international cooperation. [1] https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ [2] https://zerowasteeurope.eu/our-work/eu-policy/waste-management/food-waste/ https://zerowasteeurope.eu/our-work/eu-policy/waste-manageme... [3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/11/27/165907972/for-restaurants-food-waste-is-seen-as-low-priority https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/11/27/165907972/fo...
- mkoubaa 3y ago
  Unfortunately, "figure out how to get rid of food waste" does not mean point out solutions, it means figure out how to implement them.

Freeze more meat and veg. Puree or dehydrate the ugly stuff. Educate people on how to not overbuy and how to fucking cook. You can't eliminate food waste - but many well off Americans have no clue about how to properly feed themselves while minimizing waste.

mkoubaa 3y ago
I'm very passionate about food waste, and I agree with your assessment. But "educating people at scale" is not a problem that humanity has solved yet.

mschuster91 3y ago

Y'all could just look at Europe. The US wastes approximately 40% (!!!) of their entire production [1], Europe only around 20% [2]. The average American drives 21.000 km/a, Europeans ~15.000. If you need it spelled out what you need to do: limit portion sizes in restaurants (where a lot of the food waste happens, also contributing to the insane rat infestation issues [3]) by law since Americans seem to love extensive portions, educate people how to cook and how to plan cooking, ban ultra large food packaging that no reasonable family can use before the product goes bad, and introduce actual public transit on all levels from local over regional to interstate to reduce your dependency on fossil fuels. As for food waste in developing countries, it would be a good starter idea to invest into electrical grids and microgrids, it's hard to keep food from perishing when you don't have a stable grid to run a fridge. But that's a monumental task that needs international cooperation. [1] https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ https://www.rts.com/resources/guides/food-waste-america/ [2] https://zerowasteeurope.eu/our-work/eu-policy/waste-management/food-waste/ https://zerowasteeurope.eu/our-work/eu-policy/waste-manageme... [3] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/11/27/165907972/for-restaurants-food-waste-is-seen-as-low-priority https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/11/27/165907972/fo...

mkoubaa 3y ago
Unfortunately, "figure out how to get rid of food waste" does not mean point out solutions, it means figure out how to implement them.