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Trying to prevent food waste is silly. There is plenty of food where people are organized and no food where they are not. Agriculture needs stability, you need
by GoToRO 2y ago
Trying to prevent food waste is silly. There is plenty of food where people are organized and no food where they are not. Agriculture needs stability, you need to be sure that after one year of work, you can reap the benefits of that work. This does not happens in places where any guy with an AK can come and steal your crop.
It's like a comedian (sightly obese) said: "my Mom said there are hungry children in Africa so I should finish my food. So I did. Hope that helped" (paraphrasing). The irony is that it really doesn't help. The shortage in food is caused by other problems.
- o11c 2y agoTrying to prevent food waste is silly for another reason, too. "No food is wasted" is another way of saying "we are in the middle of a famine and people are eating everything they can." Food waste is a deliberate government policy decision to prevent famines in lean years. This is explicit for some products, but the benefit still exists for other products.
- wakawaka28 2y agoIn the interest of preventing famines, food can be stacked up when too much is produced. But even with that policy, it is unlikely that anyone could achieve zero waste without increasing the risks of shortages.