A lot of that "destroyed food" is animals who lived their entire lives in tiny, filthy cages just so that they could be killed and rot in a plastic bag.

The main problem is this :

A supermarket could donate food that will expire shortly to anyone or any charity. But if that near to expiration date food makes someone sick for whatever reason, that person could sue the supermarket. Insurance companies would charge a lot to cover that risk so stores opt to throw it out rather than do the morally correct thing and donate it because it costs them money reducing profit for no return to the stockholders.

If the US would pass a law shielding companies from lawsuits related to donated food, then this could become the norm

Heaven forbid right?

Aren’t political positions like titles which just give privileges and very little responsibility.

/s

I recently went to the store to buy some pastries before closing—you can already know where I'm going with this. The pastry cupboard was empty so I went to check the lady who cleans them out. They were all in a three big boxes stacked on top of each other, filled with soon to be thrown pastries. I took two and paid full price. Knowing how ridiculous this is in contrast with the rest having been thrown in the trash 10 minutes later. I'd much rather go a day or two without food knowing that nothing gets wasted and no one goes hungry than what shameful consumerist nonsense we have now.

At least one local hypermarket does sell food at discounted price before they go off. Some poorer families rely on them.

I ate so well for a few months as a student until the local Waitrose started chaining their bins shut. Quite a lot of people did in fact, which is presumably why they started chaining them shut.

I do a lot of big events at big convention hotels, and you would be shocked at how much amazing food they throw out. I know you think you know, but trust me you have no idea.

The fact that at this time in history we have the world's first trillionaire and we padlock the dumpsters we throw food away into is a disgrace. The future will not look kindly on us that we let this stand

Credit where credit is due.

I live in NYC and voted for him, but I honestly thought he'd be bogged down by an entrenched bureaucracy and not actually do much.

It was worth the price of admission just to see the Lesbian Fire Commissioner.

edit = The Fire Commissioner was an EMS Chief before getting promoted. Back in 1995 most of the front line EMS workers hated the idea of being pulled into the Fire Department. They liked being independent. It took a long time, but now the tail is wagging the dog.

Don't know about your shit hole state, but in EU trade of expired food is strictly forbidden.

Because health concerns.

They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.

And to focus on perceived races, while keeping women and queers in their places.

(I'm working on the last line, too long)

the peasant class exists to generate more money for the owner class, not the other way around.

always has been

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Im in connecticut and my govenor is up for primary. He's done okay, but you can tell he is trying to compete with the younger fella up for the D primary. I hope the younger fella wins, but in the meantime 70ish old Lemont is trying to make headlines with "proposals" (nothings passed) that are based on policies that would benefit the working class.

I love to see the fear. I should write the old man and ask him to endorse his younger canidate. Near certain these guys just dont want to give up their comfortable positions of power due to some psycological desire.

When I'm president, I'm going to spend every dicking dollar on education, so the masses understand that a single person doesn't make as much difference to 360M people as those 360M We the People do to themselves.

My twelfth grade English teacher told me the machines are broken, they just don't know they're broken, so the bigger machine made of machines grinds on. There's a scene in the matrix about this, how the average person is so dependent on the matrix they will fight to defend it.

What truly is possible to the human form? Society is 1776 updated to 2026. What if we just started fresh, what would we make and be then? Would it be 1776 2.0, or something else entirely? I think of democracy afforded in the modern day where only a republic was good enough before with the communication potential available then.