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- anniemcgrathy, on 05/09/2008, -3/+40I wonder how much food gets wasted in homes vs in restaurants. Either way, that is upsetting. Nice post, I didn't know about this artist.
- Rotzooi, on 05/09/2008, -3/+33While still a waste, I can deal with dumping left over rice and veggies. Animals that were killed and then just thrown away bother me a lot more.
I'm a carnivore, that's not the point; killing and eating is fine with me. But wasting an animal's life just strikes me as very wrong. - digghandyman, on 05/09/2008, -3/+32The worst waste comes straight from the crops. If a crop doesn't meet a size standard they let it rot in the field. There was a huge stink about this in California some years back over tomatoes I believe. They weren't large enough for the stores do to weather. Then the canners couldn't get to them in time so they just died in the fields. Unfortunately this is common. Besides what makes it to the store at all is a massive tragedy.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -2/+26Too bad food products don't decompose and become soil or anything
- neoform, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2033% ends up in the trash.
5% ends up on my shirt
62% ends up in the toilet a day later - twiztidsinz, on 05/09/2008, -3/+23But 100% of everything we DONT buy goes to waste.
Help the environment, buy more :-D - jstohler, on 05/09/2008, -2/+18Start a compost pile now.
- chazizzle, on 05/09/2008, -8/+25Wow. It's sad how much we waste. I can't imagine bulk buying as helped ala Costco etc. This is good campaign. I hope they send it to other countries.
- merreborn, on 05/09/2008, -0/+16If it's not going to be eaten, the most efficient thing to do is let it rot where it lies. Requires zero energy, and most of the nutrients go straight back into the soil for the next crop.
- jeremyduffy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+16That is so damned true. Usually fruits and veggies for me. It comes down to understanding that if you buy a head of lettuce, you better be eating salad EVERY DAY that week. But then again, sometimes it's cheaper to buy the bigger one and throw half of it away than to buy the one that's just the size you need.
- Xproject01, on 05/09/2008, -2/+15OM NOM NOM NOM
- tmbrwolf19, on 05/09/2008, -1/+13I would say costco reduces waste if anything. Buying in bulk reduces packaging waste for the most part. Food stuffs are always compostables and are an easy fix. That plastic wrap and other non-recyclables are what do us in and that should be the focus of household waste reduction.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+12While I agree with the sentiment, it would be bad for grocery store's business to have pictures of rotten food decorating the place.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10*due to weather*
- tambird, on 05/09/2008, -6/+16This should be posted in all US stores. You can just see people overloading their carts. The look on their faces as to whether they need it or not and then they just add it in.
- blackgt93, on 05/09/2008, -0/+10This just in, 2/3 of the food you buy turns into poop!
- coollettuce, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9Yeah, that would be awesome.
- JonTheGoose, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9so if we bought less than instead of the food going bad in my house it would go bad in the grocery store and be thrown away anyways....the only way there wouldn't be waste is if we go all the way back to the farmer and tell him to grow EXACTLY 5 tomatoes because I'm making spaghetti sauce on Tuesday.
- CiXeL, on 05/09/2008, -0/+9vegetable waste we should be collecting and turning back into mulch. we dump so much fertilizer on fruits and veggies which is locked inside the food. break it down and its high end fertilizer again,
- t1m0j5, on 05/09/2008, -0/+8The issue is not production, it's distribution
- captainLAGER, on 05/09/2008, -1/+9Brizillian?? Are they serious?!
- calon9, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7After trial and error during my bachelor years, I got good at minimizing my fruit/veggie waste. I knew which to chop/wash before storing, which to store with paper towels to absorb moisture and which to put in those ethylene absorbing bags to prolong them. But most important of course was learning how much (or little) to buy at the store.
- MetaDFF, on 05/09/2008, -0/+7Although I agree that having the crops waste on the field is bad, it's not as bad as having it packaged, shipped, then carted away to your house by car before being disposed of in the garbage can because you simply overbought it. At least rotting the in fields won't produce as much energy waste in the process. It is such a crime to waste something when somebody else could have eaten it.
- elliott9, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7I like costco!
- oldhick, on 05/09/2008, -2/+8Pretty good reminder for us to be more diligent. While I know we can never be perfect I'm sure each of us can find some places where we can reduce our waste.
On a side note, I have never heard of star fruit before. Gonna have to look into it. What do they taste like? Help me out here! - Brainmodder, on 05/09/2008, -2/+8Or we could build a portal gun to transmit our leftovers to Africa. Of course, this might require the energy of a couple thousand suns.
Dugg for finally finding someone who doesn't thing GM plants are evil. - greeniemeani, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7That's what she said.
- rayraym0fucka, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7A friend of mine owns a pizzeria and at the end of the night they give all the left over pizzas to the bar next door for the drunks to eat. He doesn't believe in throwing food in the trash. Now what the drunks do with it is another story all together.
- madeingermany, on 05/09/2008, -4/+10or killing an animal for
- its fur
- just the legs (ribbit)
- "sports"
... - jessehadden, on 05/09/2008, -1/+7You're absolutely, one-hundred-percent right. Terminating another conscious, subjective frame-of-reference for no other reason than fun, fashion, or a good luck charm is simply disgusting. The only reason you're being dugg-down is because these vulgar actions are still firmly entrenched in tradition.
- HillerMylife, on 07/24/2008, -0/+6Just keep a compost box in the yard :)
- XSVfan, on 05/09/2008, -0/+5When I worked in a local cafe we threw away a lot of eaten food. It appalled me how much good food got thrown away. When it came to fresh food, none of it was wasted.
- ausfahrt, on 05/09/2008, -1/+6It's brutal in restaurants in my experience. In busy kitchens time is so important that if a box of lettuce is low and too hard to fish bits out they would just toss it. It was the same with everything even cheese and im sure if you added the end bits up all night you would have a full box.
- kapsar, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4The main question is. If we don't buy it will it still go to waste? Basically, if we don't over buy we'd be punishing the grocery stores for expecting us to over buy, so the waste just goes back farther, then when they stop over buying to compensate for us over buying the farmer may get stuck with more crops, that he can't sell.
Regardless the wasted will still get wasted somewhere.
So you want to export it to needy countries? Well as in the aid to Myanmar has shown part of the reason people are starving in those areas is the governments running them.
The sad truth is our society is built on excess and many people will in fact curtail their wasting, other people will scoff at it and waste even more. Plus, people forget the food they have, or they were hungry when they were shopping so they over bought. It's human nature to want more food than we can handle. - drkmccrthy, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5Buried for showing almost entirely biodegradable products. (Aside from the pudding cups)
- bendeboy, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I work in the produce department of a grocery store. My boss would tell me half of that ***** would still sell. Rainbow foods BTW. They suck at pretty much everything.
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I guess somebody is looking at this poster and saying "so true." And it appears the creator of the poster is saying theres a whole bunch of these somebodies. Who are these people? Find out and let me know, cause when the food runs out I am going to eat them.
- madeingermany, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4At least the responsible restaurants have arrangements with organizations that can use leftover foods.
I'd like to add that food does not go "straight to the garbage" - at least in my kitchen it has to sit around unit it catches mold, before I throw anything out ;) - Ganpachi, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5Just learn some basic kitchen inventory maintenance skills.
1) Plan your meals out for the week paying attention to meals that make use of what you already have.
2) Buy the ingredients you need for each dish
3) Learn to cook them, enjoy them, take pride in them. Save the leftovers for lunch the next day and save cash on eating out at work
I rarely throw out much more than the seeds, peels, baggies and cans from the veggies I buy, and usually I compost/recycle those. - purplehaze420, on 05/09/2008, -1/+5Clearly you are thinking inside the box. Take a step out.
- jaderobbins, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4AND ITS JUST FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET! PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
- meruru, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4I remember that well from when I worked in a supermarket. Just take out the ones with fuzz and put a 50% off sticker on it
- dyreschlock, on 05/09/2008, -0/+4Jesus.. First we're fat, and now we're not eating enough!?
- MTessa, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3I think the point is everything takes time, energy and money to produce whether biodegradable or not. So if we buy more than we use, the producers of food will make more and cost more waste. I definitely grab an extra this or that at the store and then don't use it some of the time. So I could consume the same amount and buy less. I think that's what the poster is trying to achieve. Just my view of it.
- inactive, on 05/09/2008, -1/+4There needs to be a sales channel for the food chain to work, its actually cheaper for the farmers to let it rot in the field than it is for them to give it away. Why? Because even to give the food away you have to transport it, and without an expectation of profit at the other end, no one will transport the food for free to the poor people who need it.
- Bluejaye, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3I agree. That picture was meaningless to me, I waste virtually nothing that I buy at the grocery store. I guess I was raised differently, throwing food away was near criminal growing up.
- PabloMac, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Another third goes to my waist.
- wasanasan, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3its sad because theres a rice shortage, and the prices for a sack of rice is going up.
- lolwtfhaha, on 05/09/2008, -0/+3Don't compost meat, or poop (same difference).
- jaderobbins, on 05/09/2008, -0/+2lol! People are so damn wasteful. FLUSHING IT DOWN THE TOILET!!!!!
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