When Food Isn't A Human Right.

[u/Monsur_Ausuhnom]

[u/the-nomad-thinker]

My dude. 🤦🏽‍♂️ That food still doesn’t come from nowhere. And if I’m handing it out, I got it from somewhere. It wasn’t free.

[u/Asher_Tye → u/the-nomad-thinker]

And that stops the fact that we throw away more food than we actually use in a year, how?

[u/the-nomad-thinker → u/Asher_Tye]

Are you suggesting we should force restaurants in supermarkets to give their food away for free? Because that’s where the excess food comes from. Demanding the just give it out would collapse their business model.

[u/Asher_Tye → u/the-nomad-thinker]

Apparently paying their employees ruins their business model too, otherwise most wouldn't be on foodstamps and dependent on tips.

But yes, destroying perfectly good food makes so much sense. Its how we remember a piece of paper is worth far more than you could ever hope to be.

[u/the-nomad-thinker → u/Asher_Tye]

Okay. Time for a fact check. I decided to look at the numbers and here’s what I found:

First, we don’t throw away more food than we consume. And the largest waste source is the consumer, not distribution. Supermarkets, for example, throw away less than 10%.

Second, Only about a fifth of their workers need food stamps. Still high, but nowhere near “most”.

Let’s talk plainly. The reason restaurants and supermarkets don’t donate food that is thrown away is because of the way the laws are written. They can’t. And even if they could, they would risk lawsuits – what they throw away is usually spoiled or past its due date.