Food Waste Debate
The cluster discusses the causes, scale, and implications of food waste across production, retail, restaurants, and households, including logistical challenges, corporate policies against donation, and arguments for or against tolerating some waste to prevent shortages.
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Food is already abundant but it rather gets destroyed than sold for nothing.
Food isn't hoarded, it's wasted, because no one pays for deliver it where it's needed.
Could be at the expense of more food wastage.
perhaps they were done with seeing good food expire on the shelf, and paying to have it destroyed
It's estimated that around half of produced food is wasted/thrown away so maybe we aren't that far from what you're describing
Seems very similar to how Restaurants and grocery stores throw food out instead of giving it to shelters and homeless people. It’s a common corporate policy in the US. The only justification seems to be that if they gave it away, they might miss out on some otherwise potential sales.
Keep in mind that a lot of that "waste" happens before the food reaches us consumers.
Do you throw away 2% of the food you buy?
people always think it's easy to give food away. at household portions, yes definitely. but when you have warehouses of them it's a logistical nightmare and sadly food goes in the bin.
The subject is wasted food at home.