Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Vox"
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I'm going to posit that food waste is not a problem:
1) Throwing out a head of lettuce or a tomato is no different from an oak tree shedding its leaves and acorns. Both are plants that eventually decompose. Throwing out a half-eaten steak is the same as a rat dying in a ditch.
2) Wasted food still gets eaten, just not by humans. It gets eaten by other mammals, or insects, or bacteria and fungi.
3) Giving food to those who need it already happens. You give your food to your loved ones: Friends, children, etc. when you eat with them. That's the purpose of buying food in the first place.
4) Giving food to strangers who need it is not so easy. You will keep food at home as long as it has value to you. Say some deli ham, you keep it until it turns bad. Once it's bad, nobody else wants to eat it. Same with old eggs, or old wheat flour. Shelters can't use expired food because it has the potential to make people sick.
5) Giving excess food to people in other parts of the world is only a good idea in places going through famine or severe food shortages. Generally speaking, food should not be given to developing countries, because it disrupts their own food economy: Free food may take away the livelihood of farmers who need the income from selling their crops on the market. Thus, free food can make life worse for people on the bottom of society. People living with malnutrition generally live in areas far from towns and roads, so getting the food to them is virtually impossible.
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