Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 15 hours ago
yeah it’s politics’ job to feed everyone, agree. however, food waste in general is not the bad thing that you think it is.
food production naturally fluctuates. there have been over 20 volcano eruptions (example) in the last 2000 years that led to recorded famines. it’s only a matter of time till the next one happens. it’s not preventable, the only mitigation is to have enough surplus food production capability to make it through even if 30% of crops fails.
and having surplus food production capability necessarily leads to food waste.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Nobody is complaining about that.
The complaint is that there is surplus production, and simultaneously 1. the production is actively wasted and destroyed, while 2. people are going hungry.
That’s like saying ‘your kid has a horrible disease, and in this syringe I have the cure for it, but I’m just gonna squirt it down the sink instead because why not’.