• @Sam_Bass
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    338 hours ago

    the bread is real. what you arent seeing is the removal of the unsold products that are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters and hog farmers, then replaced with fresh loaves the next day. there are fda rules in place to prevent leaving such products out more than a couple days.

    • @[email protected]
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      227 hours ago

      are almost certainly being donated to homeless shelters being thrown away and people who are taking some are persecuted… and hog farmers

      fixed that for you :)

      • @Sam_Bass
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        -56 hours ago

        you fixed nothing maybe where you live thats how it works but here in tejas we follow food safety rules as well as donated unsold produce to our local foodbanks and shelters. if that isnt how your community works then i hope you get to experience it firsthand. i have and without those good folks deeds we wouldve starved to death a long time ago.

        • @[email protected]
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          135 hours ago

          Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.

          • @[email protected]
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            04 hours ago

            In France it is illegal to throw food out. It has to go to the homeless or those stores will get fined.

            You do know most people don’t live in the US, right?

            • @AlexanderTheDead
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              13 minutes ago

              The commenter they were responding to literally mentioned the FDA. The US Federal Drug and Safety Administration.

            • @Madison420
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              73 hours ago

              You can safely assume American when you see English and monstrous business behaviors. Aside from that I think the US makes up most of Lemmy traffic anyhow.

          • @Sam_Bass
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            5 hours ago

            yeah as i said though, ymmv depending on loc

        • @[email protected]
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          96 hours ago

          In the capitalists west, there are only small grassroots projects doing this. Most volume of that stuff goes straight in padlocked trash when best before is met

          • Bizzle
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            46 hours ago

            Can confirm that at least Target donates a LOT of food in my area, source being I was on the logistics team and literally watched trucks taking stuff to the food bank