• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    you fixed nothing maybe where you live thats how it works but here in tejas we follow food safety rules as well as donated unsold produce to our local foodbanks and shelters. if that isnt how your community works then i hope you get to experience it firsthand. i have and without those good folks deeds we wouldve starved to death a long time ago.

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      6 months ago

      In the capitalists west, there are only small grassroots projects doing this. Most volume of that stuff goes straight in padlocked trash when best before is met

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        6 months ago

        Can confirm that at least Target donates a LOT of food in my area, source being I was on the logistics team and literally watched trucks taking stuff to the food bank

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      6 months ago

      Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.

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        6 months ago

        In France it is illegal to throw food out. It has to go to the homeless or those stores will get fined.

        You do know most people don’t live in the US, right?