US$6 billion in food is wasted every day!!!!

[Abu Zolfiqar]

that's true, however in fairness to them --those restaurants would LOVE to be able to salvage the day's food and use it for the next day...they'd save money....however there are laws against that --and more and more restaurants dont want to use preservatives since they are becoming increasingly "frowned upon"

as you rightly noted, they fear being sued.....and in America, you can sue for just about anything.....even for coffee being too hot



The McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit - Auburn Journal

 

[Chogy]

Of course you are not taking into account hundreds of thousands of restaurants that throw away tons of food every night. There is enough food thrown away every night the would feed all the hungry and homeless people in the US, many times over . I migrated to the US in 1976 and was shocked to see the amount of food thrown in the dumpsters everynight, by the fast food joints. The main issue here is not logistics but fear of being sued. The restaurants are more afraid of being sued so they prefer to throw away that food ( which btw is still fresh at the end of the day) rather than have a lawsuit at their hands.

When will such lame-a$$ propaganda end? [/QUOTE]


Why are you being so defensive , Chogy[/QUOTE]

I have already admitted there is waste... there will be in any affluent society. But regardless, the numbers don't add up.

Most people my age had parents who grew up in the Great depression, and THEY were frugal. Hugely frugal. If I didn't eat all my food, my mom would say "There are starving children around the world." When I was older and a smart-a$$, I'd say "Well let's mail it to them, then." That didn't go down well.

But those frugal attitudes are disappearing.

 

[gambit]

Why are you being so defensive , Chogy

Why not? What is 'food' in the first place? Is it the final product, like a 'hamburger' or is it a carrot just off the ground? When you make a 'shirt' can you ship it to anywhere you like? How about the 'hamburger'?

This article is INTENTIONALLY misleading and DESIGNED to sling unwarranted guilt. Even if America does not waste any food, which is an impossibility anyway, soon enough someone would comment on how much overweight is the average American compare to so-and-so in Africa and that would begin another attempt at a new guilt trip.

If you want to talk about food, then talk about agriculture because certainly the American style 'hamburger' is unpalatable to whatever it is that they eat over in Africa or Asia or the ME. Is it nutritious? You bet. Is the American style pizza nutritious? You bet again. They may be overdone with fat but certainly you will get a lot of important vitamins and proteins from both of them. But are they palatable to diverse tastes? No. But the moment we begin to talk about agriculture we must intrude upon the politics of these countries where food is so scarce that people would create articles like these to try to sling these guilt trips and to address the true causes of why these countries are so backward and starving is unpalatable to the authors of these articles.

By the way, I had a good one inch thick dry aged prime rib 16 ounce steak last night, cooked rare, buttered rice, sauteed mushrooms, and two beers.

 

[VCheng]

We grow it. We cook it. We eat it. We have food fights. We dump the rest.

Is there a problem here?

(seriously though, USA is the world's biggest provider of food support to the rest of the world too.)

 

[TruthSeeker]

US$6 billion in food is wasted every day!!!!


The culture of wasting a single product triggers a series of other acts of waste that sometimes are not counted. Unfortunately, according to the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), Brazil is among the 10 countries that waste more food in the world. About 30% of all agricultural produce goes to waste. That means tons of food on the table could be of use to more than 40 million Brazilians who are hungry every day. According to the Social Service of Commerce (SESC), "R$12 billion (6 billion USD) in food is thrown away daily, an amount sufficient to guarantee breakfast, lunch and dinner for 39 million people."

Please note that the article in the opening post gives the $6 billion wastage number as the amount that BRAZIL wastes, not the USA. It merely translates the Brazilian "real" currency number (R$12 billion) into USD for comparison. The thread title makes it seem like this is the USA's daily wastage.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

When will such lame-a$$ propaganda end?

Why are you being so defensive , Chogy[/QUOTE]

I have already admitted there is waste... there will be in any affluent society. But regardless, the numbers don't add up.

Most people my age had parents who grew up in the Great depression, and THEY were frugal. Hugely frugal. If I didn't eat all my food, my mom would say "There are starving children around the world." When I was older and a smart-a$$, I'd say "Well let's mail it to them, then." That didn't go down well.

But those frugal attitudes are disappearing.[/QUOTE]

people around the world need to learn to tighten their belts a little bit....not just because the world has limited capacity and can hold only so much people (without food resources becoming increasingly scarce) --but also for health reasons

all i need is a good strong breakfast tea with toast and a decent lunch. I can survive on soup for dinner. My daily expenditure on food is almost negligible. I'm guilty of wasting food sometimes but i try my best not to do that because as was the case with you, my parents always instilled in me that there are less fortunate people who would do anything to have those leftover portions for their sustenance

brutal world out there

 

[boris]

Simple math will reveal this entire article to be total B.S.

There are 300 million people in the USA. If we "throw away 6 billion in food daily" that means we throw away $20 per day for every man. woman, and child in the United States. My family of five would throw out $120 worth of food every day.

Can people not recognize how utterly ridiculous this claim is? I don't even CONSUME $20 worth of food every day, let alone throw it away.

When will such lame-a$$ propaganda end?

I agree stuff such as this,and BS research articles in news papers like club soda will badly decay your teeth and so on really is a pain in the rear.

 

[VCheng]

.................

brutal world out there

Yes it is.

Always has been, is, and will be too.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

If I didn't eat all my food, my mom would say "There are starving children around the world." When I was older and a smart-a$$, I'd say "Well let's mail it to them, then." That didn't go down well.

But those frugal attitudes are disappearing.

Your mum was right to make you realize that there are starving peoples out there so you should be thankful for what you have and should only buy what you need or can eat. If we cannot eat all then why we should have all

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

I agree stuff such as this,and BS research articles in news papers like club soda will badly decay your teeth and so on really is a pain in the rear.

Its not BS. Food waste is fact. The total food waste by consumers in industrialized countries (222 million tons) is almost equal to the entire food production in sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons). Read it

Food waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.

A War Against Food Waste - NYTimes.com

 

[gambit]

Its not BS. Food waste is fact. The total food waste by consumers in industrialized countries (222 million tons) is almost equal to the entire food production in sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tons). Read it

Food waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


According to the most recent available statistics, more than 30 million tons of food was dumped in landfills in 2009, making food by far the most abundant material there by weight, the federal Environmental Protection Agency says. (That calculation excludes industrial, construction and hazardous waste.) This amounts roughly to 200 pounds a year for every man, woman and child in the United States.

A War Against Food Waste - NYTimes.com

Then food waste should be seen as a infrastructure related issue. We did not go to Africa, looted their corns and grains harvests, and take them back to America to use and to waste. We import and export food at the commodity level with other countries, such as Mexico and Canada. At this level, food must be grown domestically. Africa may have drought and other natural disasters, but so do we and Africa as a land is hardly infertile.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

I have seen it with my eyes shopping malls , big ones throwing away

a) Soda pop (damaged can)
b) Fruits that are just 1-2 day old
c) Perfectly fine meat perhaps not fresh as newly cut
d) Boxes and boxes of chocolate not bought but thrown out

Mcdonald's stores , throwing stuff , resturants throwing away food huge quantities

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I have seen it with my eyes shopping malls , big ones throwing away

a) Soda pop (damaged can)
b) Fruits that are just 1-2 day old
c) Perfectly fine meat perhaps not fresh as newly cut
d) Boxes and boxes of chocolate not bought but thrown out

Mcdonald's stores , throwing stuff , resturants throwing away food huge quantities

Now people are making fuel form grains ...lol jacking up prices for grain in poor countries

 

[vinh2012]

isnt there a ban on large servings of food at weddings now, in big cities?

austerity measures