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  • Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

    Much better than killing animals and throwing food away which were stories I was reading.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/b...destroyed.html


    By Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany
    May 2, 2020, 4:00 p.m. ET

    While millions of Americans are worried about having enough to eat and lines at food banks grow, farmers have been plowing under vegetable fields, dumping milk and smashing eggs that cannot be sold because the coronavirus pandemic has shut down restaurants, hotels and schools.

    Now, the destruction of fresh food on such a scale has prompted action by the Trump administration and state governments, as well as grass-roots efforts like a group of college students who are renting trucks to rescue unsold onions and eggs from farms. But they most likely won’t be enough to address the problem if businesses remain closed for months.

    Over the next few weeks, the Department of Agriculture will begin spending $300 million a month to buy surplus vegetables, fruit, milk and meat from distributors and ship them to food banks. The federal grants will also subsidize boxing up the purchases and transporting them to charitable groups — tasks that farmers have said they cannot afford, giving them few options other than to destroy the food.

    Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office has said New York will give food banks $25 million to buy products made from excess milk on farms in the state; the state is working with manufacturers like Chobani, Hood and Cabot to turn the milk into cheese, yogurt and butter. Some of the state subsidy can also be used to buy apples, potatoes and other produce that farms have in storage.
    Last edited by slavenomore; 05-02-2020, 10:00 PM.

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    Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

    just damn slave, I seen something on the news a few weeks ago. it was local thought... local farm that sells milk to local restaurants. it was a video of him driving one of them things that sprays for bugs or fertilizer, but it was milk he was just spraying on the ground.

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      Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

      Originally posted by Jimmy View Post
      just damn slave, I seen something on the news a few weeks ago. it was local thought... local farm that sells milk to local restaurants. it was a video of him driving one of them things that sprays for bugs or fertilizer, but it was milk he was just spraying on the ground.
      They have been doing that in New York state also.. Read a story a while back about a farmer dumping four trailer loads because the processor couldn't take them..

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        Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

        Originally posted by Jimmy View Post
        just damn slave, I seen something on the news a few weeks ago. it was local thought... local farm that sells milk to local restaurants. it was a video of him driving one of them things that sprays for bugs or fertilizer, but it was milk he was just spraying on the ground.
        I saw that they were gonna euthanize tens of thousands of hogs and kill 2 million chickens.
        And not auction them for $1 a head or anything? Just kill them?
        And some think that we are God's gift to the world? Dumping food? In mass quantities.
        I wouldn't think God approves of that.

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          Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

          Make that millions...of hogs. Not 10's of thousands.
          https://fox59.com/news/millions-of-h...ng-facilities/
          Officials estimate that about 700,000 pigs across the nation can’t be processed each week and must euthanized. Most of the hogs are being killed at farms, but up to 13,000 a day also may be euthanized at the JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minnesota

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            Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

            https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/u...m-workers.html

            A chicken processing company based in Delaware killed nearly 2 million chickens this month after many of its workers were sidelined by illness or quarantine orders related to the coronavirus, industry officials said.

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            • #7
              Re: Trying To Prevent Massive Food Waste

              And produce and meat....Eggs are being destroyed also.
              Looks like our system and way of doing things needs a whole lot of rethinking.
              Preventative measures to prevent food waste should have been in place decades ago. Ya don't just waste food. Stupid system....it must be...this proves it.
              Millions of pounds of food is being wasted on US farms after demand collapsed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple reports.

              Farmers are pouring thousands of gallons of milk down the drain, and crushing ripe fruit and vegetables back into the soil with heavy machinery because they have no way to put it on the market for a profit.

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