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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

But we are. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 22% of the food industries 26% CO2 emissions. And don't forget the diseases food waste produces.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

That food waste is largely due to arbitrary date labels and grocery stores throwing out literal tons of perfectly good food instead of donating it.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

And believe it or not, part of this is because people don't like to pick up the weird looking tomato, or the banana with a few peckles.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

According to the USDA, again, the majority of food waste is at the household level.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Circling back to the arbitrary date labels

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How can we sell more without an expiration date?!!! We need to please the profits and shorten expiration dates!

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