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 PierreJeanFR
Male, 40-49, Europe
 1336 Posts
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Monday, April 18, 2011 8:49:54 AM
they forgot hotels and restaurants, more waste there.
@phoneybone: maybe the stats are not accurate but believe me there's a lot of waste in the "developed" world, a bit like in your comment. |
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 Musuko42
Male, 18-29, Europe
2094 Posts
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 6:24:37 AM
Within two minute's walk of both my home and my office are two supermarkets, three "mini" supermarkets, and a market selling fruit and veg.
So my shopping trips are often and small, rather than infrequent and large.
All my fruit and veg comes from that market, not from the supermarkets, so hopefully I'm not supporting the waste there.
Maybe that's part of the reason why the most I ever seem to throw away is a little bit of milk that I've left too long; I'm always able to buy only what I need and I don't have to store it for weeks on end.
I'm also vegetarian, so the meat inefficiency isn't applicable to me.
So my question is...
...if my waste is pretty low, who's out there wasting even more to balance the average to 1/4 wasted? |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
10503 Posts
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 5:58:34 AM
Again with the water wasting... the water isn't "used up". All of it returns to the environment. Yes, every last drop. It's all a matter of having it at the right place, which can be solved by technology.
But the video does make a good point. The food itself could be used be wasted less. I don't buy what I don't intend to eat. That's just bad planning.
We could talk about food packaging, but that's not the fault of ordinary people... |
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Kikato
Male, 18-29, Australia
10 Posts
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:44:59 AM
500L of water for 1K Potatoes?
You could grow so many potatoes with <20L of watter at home. Considering the usual shortage of water for farmers, i'm pretty sure htey're not wasting so much water.
and surely farmers would recycle their water to a degree, is it 500L of water, or 50L water cycled 10 times.
which brings the rest of it (which I had believed) to into question.
really, I buy food that I expect to eat, but sometimes it goes off (and then gets thrown out a few months later).
of course supermarkets wont take fruit they can't sell.
and given the choice, which I have, I'll eat the food without bruises.
as for food hitting the ground, that's were most of the bugs are, if bugs crawl into a banana that his the ground, then is transported with the rest of the banana's, the bugs will multiply and either ruin the rest of the fruit, or the bugs will be torn asunder as a wasteful eater bites righ through them.
This video has not real facts or sources, an |
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 madduck
Female, 40-49, Europe
2871 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 11:46:02 PM
All that waste is just greed- we can do it- so we will do it. Perhaps we could stop treating animals as a resource for our convenience and treat them well- put up the price of meat to reflect this, then waste much less of it? Just an idea. |
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 phoneybone
Male, 18-29, Western US
1750 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 10:58:10 PM
I don't ever believe these, the stats are always misconstrued.
Using the parts of the cow we don't eat to make pet food, how is that food waste? And the stuff we don't eat that gets thrown away and "wasted" usually becomes slop for pigs and other animals or fertilizer/compost.
These vids are always a bunch of bs. |
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 elhowell
Male, 18-29, Asia
168 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 9:59:12 PM
more like delicious. |
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 the_windy
Female, 18-29, Canada
1569 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 8:25:23 PM
Some broccoli fell on the ground today at the supermarket while at the checkout, and the lady buying it said she didn't want it anymore. The thing looked fine to me. They don't bruise, and you're going to wash it anyway. |
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 skypirate
Male, 18-29, Western US
1786 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 8:13:36 PM
US government jeopardized US farm industry subsidized aid (aided countries') fiscally strategic move, not a humanitarian move.
all politically loaded words aside, this is one of (albeit very very condensed) the philosophical arguments, not a political one. |
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 ScubaFett
Male, 18-29, Australia
175 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 7:53:39 PM
@yudontn0me Scared that the amount would be larger than us Aussies? The truth hurts doesn't it... |
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 yudontn0me
Male, 18-29, Western US
851 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 7:09:43 PM
f.uckin Australians... (dear Australia, please dont post anything about Americas wasted food.) |
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 tommy2X4
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
2841 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 5:42:00 PM
Save a tree, eat a beaver! |
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 LionHeart-72
Male, 18-29, Western US
494 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 4:24:05 PM
Troll posts aside, I'm curious if there's actually a way for our food to be better distributed so that less is wasted. We don't have to make any more food, just send the stuff that's left over after 1st world countries have their pick. The excess and "ugly" food's prices are adjusted for the local economy and sold. Just a thought. I'm an MBA student, not an Economics guy so I don't get all the logistics but it seems possible to me.
Quick, any Economics majors out there who want to earn a Nobel prize? Get on that! |
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 NitroJunkie
Male, 70 & Over, Africa
766 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 4:14:53 PM
@iajukesy- sometimes the best, most logical solution isn't the most palatable. But it's still the ideal solution. Too bad the vast majority of people are too squeamish to act on logic. |
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NitroJunkie
Male, 70 & Over, Africa
766 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 4:10:02 PM
720,000 Garbage trucks needlessly on the road...that's a lot of Diesel fuel wasted, too. Oh, and oil and grease and tires... |
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Afugy
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
100 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:52:34 PM
@iajukesy He is not joking, giving them food drives down the price of food in the area that hurts local farmers to the point where they can't farm any more. Sending them a tractor is better then sending food. |
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Afugy
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
100 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:49:52 PM
In the 6 months it takes a cow to get to weight eating corn the cow will eat what would feed a human for 5 1/2 years, the cow can only feed you for 260 days. This is based off of a 2000 calorie a day diet. |
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verbosity
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
83 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:19:18 PM
@skypirate - do understand the US government realized that teaching them to farm would have jeopardized the US farm industry, and thus we actively subsidized our agriculture and opted to provide food aid in the form of giving food so their (aided countries') agricultural base would be eroded. It was a fiscally strategic move, not a humanitarian move. |
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 Abandonnez
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
230 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:14:46 PM
Well isn't this almost how it is in all 1st world countries? |
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 rnwood
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
167 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:11:35 PM
iajukesy: where's your pacifier? |
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skypirate
Male, 18-29, Western US
1786 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:04:42 PM
jesus f**king christ, I hope you're try to be ironic there.
Prick.
no, hes right. one day we will be in a drought or plague or something and we wont have enough food for our selves, then what do you do? im not against helping the less fortunate, but giving away food is only a sustainable solution until the next dust bowl hits. so, rather then giving them a fish, teach them to fish...or something like that. |
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 Angelmassb
Male, 18-29, S. America
15474 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 3:01:31 PM
Can this be one of those American this is why you are fat scenario? |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23996 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 2:59:27 PM
always about the nom noms |
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iajukesy
Male, 18-29, Europe
39 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 2:25:16 PM
*trying |
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iajukesy
Male, 18-29, Europe
39 Posts
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Friday, April 15, 2011 2:24:00 PM
@fivezones
jesus f**king christ, I hope you're try to be ironic there.
Prick. |
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