snoons@lemmy.ca to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · edit-26 months agoThey took the fat bananas away from us rulequokk.auexternal-linkmessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkThey took the fat bananas away from us rulequokk.ausnoons@lemmy.ca to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · edit-26 months agomessage-square85linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/761897/bananas bananas https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/war-on-waste-craig-reucassel-reveals-the-shocking-truth-about-our-bananas/news-story/ddd59b65712f4649fc74b3f803520776
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoFood waste is good so we have more stuff than we need. Otherwise when the next volcano erupts it’s famine time again (just look it up, it has happened at least 10 times during the last 2000 years and each time it caused a famine). Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
minus-squareharrison_fnord@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat’s what a surplus is for not foodwaste.
minus-squareDeadDigger@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoEvery food surplus is foodwaste and vice versa
Food waste is good so we have more stuff than we need. Otherwise when the next volcano erupts it’s famine time again (just look it up, it has happened at least 10 times during the last 2000 years and each time it caused a famine).
Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
That’s what a surplus is for not foodwaste.
Every food surplus is foodwaste and vice versa