are almost
certainly being donated to homeless sheltersbeing thrown away and people who are taking some are persecuted… and hog farmers
fixed that for you :)
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.
Have worked in grocery stores, it just gets thrown out. The level of food waste in the United States is legitimately stomach churning.
HEB is the only native grocery store in Texas that matters, and they make sure they recover 95% of the food that isn’t fit for human consumption by getting it to farms and such. They also, separately, are involved in food bank and other human wellness activities, including running logistics for hurricane relief (as an example).
HEB is too good for Texas.
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?
And not even just thrown out: it’s usually intentionally damaged so it can’t be eaten
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
