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As kids at a buffet we would all load up on way more food than we could eat. Naturally, we would just play with that food, mixing up all the things we could in
by alxjsn 3y ago
As kids at a buffet we would all load up on way more food than we could eat. Naturally, we would just play with that food, mixing up all the things we could in cups and dare each other to take a sip. I bet we weren't the only ones who did that.
- grecy 3y agoIn most places now you have to pay extra for anything left on your plate. Rightly so, food waste is inexcusable when we have people going hungry. EDIT: With the planet being used up people are perfectly happy to just waste edible food. We're doomed.
- bcrosby95 3y agoHunger is a political problem. We could easily feed everyone in the world pretty cheaply.
- supportengineer 3y agoHousing is a political problem. We could easily house everyone in the world pretty cheaply.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y ago> Rightly so, food waste is inexcusable when we have people going hungry. How would that food in the buffet get to the hungry?
- euniceee3 3y agoI smell a new startup! And really this would depend on a rich freeze drying industry. Imagine people driving around in trucks collecting all the uneaten scraps from children and adults plates. Sure we would not be able to handle to food safely, but we will be exporting it to countries that do not have as stringent laws on human consumption.
- nerdbert 3y agoIf the buffet restaurant hadn't bought it for someone to leave it on their plate, then the ingredient cost would have been lower and a poorer person would have been more likely to be able to afford it. Or someone in the supply chain could have donated it as part of their CSR program.
- wharvle 3y agoSo much food waste exists because food is incredibly cheap. Like, most of the time money spent recovering waste to give to the poor would be more effective if you just bought more food with it. That’s how cheap it is, and that’s why nobody follows economic incentives to recover the waste without further prompting (there aren’t such incentives).
- armchairhacker 3y agoLogistics are seriously underrated.
- calderracrusade 3y agoLogistics is also why "food is cheap" is a stupid argument. If the food hadn't been ordered, it wouldn't have been shipped, it wouldn't have been grown... It's silly to directly relate the exact food a kid didn't eat on a buffet in Los Angeles to a starving family in Detroit, but that doesn't mean there are zero lines to draw.
- mathgradthrow 3y agoFood waste is a result of trying to prevent people from going hungry. Systems which produce less food waste result in more people going hungry.
- nerdbert 3y agoI really do not think that applies to all-you-can-eat buffet rules about leaving plates full of uneaten food.
- JohnFen 3y agoAs a kid, we went to all-you-can-eat buffets quite a bit. Once I stopped being a kid, though, I started avoiding them because the food tends to be pretty poor. I'd rather eat less and enjoy the food than eat more and not.