• @darkseer
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    132 years ago

    But we are. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 22% of the food industries 26% CO2 emissions. And don’t forget the diseases food waste produces.

    • UhBellOP
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      302 years ago

      That food waste is largely due to arbitrary date labels and grocery stores throwing out literal tons of perfectly good food instead of donating it.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        And believe it or not, part of this is because people don’t like to pick up the weird looking tomato, or the banana with a few peckles.

        • @darkseer
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          32 years ago

          According to the USDA, again, the majority of food waste is at the household level.

          • UhBellOP
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            22 years ago

            Circling back to the arbitrary date labels

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        How can we sell more without an expiration date?!!! We need to please the profits and shorten expiration dates!