tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post5977024018858965149..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Whaaaat? More than Half of Food Produced in Canada is Wasted.The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-91211773725840714262019-01-22T16:37:08.020-08:002019-01-22T16:37:08.020-08:00Recently...I have seen young women purchasing food...Recently...I have seen young women purchasing food and eating half and putting the rest in the waste bin. What they buy isn't much on their plate to begin with. I wood like to approach them but I'd probably get told..."it's none of your business you old woman or worse". And, of course, other people in the vicinity would laugh. AnyongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-72718231286755880322019-01-19T12:20:46.300-08:002019-01-19T12:20:46.300-08:00Have only one or two meals a day?
Minimize snacks?...Have only one or two meals a day?<br />Minimize snacks?<br />Then whatever you fix to eat you're sure to finish, as you're not going to be stuffed to the hilt and, thus, you'll be hungry enough to polish it off whole. Tal Hartsfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-11834932945254556852019-01-18T21:50:39.350-08:002019-01-18T21:50:39.350-08:00John hit the raw nerve - liability. All food proce...John hit the raw nerve - liability. All food processors, distributors and retailers have insurers who want to minimize their risk. They don't want to have to pay out for some company's mistakes. Ergo the already wobbly "best before" date acquires a scriptural quality. Just another in a long string of examples of how fucked up we've become.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-21608234890936278382019-01-18T21:45:30.239-08:002019-01-18T21:45:30.239-08:00Food banks don't want anything that's past...Food banks don't want anything that's past its best-before. I saw a feature recently on an American TV broadcast in which a guy associated with one explained that most food, depending on its chemistry, is safe to consume long after the date has passed. He cited the example of some type of canned stuff that he claimed would be okay five to seven years beyond its best-before. He didn't talk about inspection and testing or liability issues, but he did say that his organization would accept and distribute these items depending on what product was in the package.John B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-20534709219345567832019-01-18T19:17:11.151-08:002019-01-18T19:17:11.151-08:00CBC TV has shown on Marketplace twice the food thr...CBC TV has shown on Marketplace twice the food thrown away by Loblaws, Sobeys and Walmart. Getting close to the sell-by date? Toss it even if it's perfectly good and could be sent to foodbanks or institutions willing to pick it up. Too much trouble to organize, apparently.<br /><br />Nobody ever ate or picked or ground-gathered the overripe or wind blown every apple except in a famine. Too many spuds? Adjust acreage for next year. Plow in the excess and richen the soil.<br /><br />I have no real idea how much food is thrown away in the home these days. Few people go around snooping on their friends and acquaintances. In our household, nothing is thrown away but peelings and bones. We grew up after WW2 and waste not was drilled into us. Sure that means leftovers have to used in another meal, it isn't that hard. Make soup, stew, whatever. Half-eaten MickyD type food doesn't surprise me. It really is inedible and people buy it from habit not desire. I don't see as much thrown out as in the sixties, though. Then it seemed the thing to be overflush with food as a sign of prosperity. At least, it seemed to us to be like that having emigrated from England in 1959.<br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18671861456209904432019-01-18T13:54:59.735-08:002019-01-18T13:54:59.735-08:00Frankly, I don't accept their findings, at lea...Frankly, I don't accept their findings, at least not as being presented. Around here there a lots of apple orchards that don't get fully picked. It's an end of season problem. Pickers have gone home and there's no one to pick the stragglers which often aren't saleable. No problem, the geese get them. <br /><br />I can't attest for all restaurants but a friend used to have an arrangement to collect food leftovers for his pigs. Food that is eventually used for animal feed or plowed back in to refresh soil should be subtracted from the report's total. The only waste I see is at the dump. Tobynoreply@blogger.com