Did Anyone Watch "The Big Waste" On The Food Network Channel?

[mhwc56]

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i really think alot of it has to do with folks not realizing there is such a waste of food out there but the stores should automatically contact foodbanks and etc to offer it instead of 'us' having to chase it down in order to get it for such places.

 

[redhen]

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I agree... they are afraid of being sued...people are too sue happy today...
BUT also if they give away free food, there goes their sales.....so.....i think its kinda both reasons...

 

[Nitrous]

I'm not too worried about wasting a percentage of food, that no one will buy. Maybe we are in some really weird area, but even our homeless people are obese.

In my yard, if a chicken dies and I don't find it soon enough, the other chickens will eat it. Toss the bruised chickens back into the pen with the other chickens?

I have never seen a starving family in America, in all my life. If a child is going hungry, what happens to that kid? To that family? They sure don't starve to death.

If we want to fix this, go purchase the bruised chickens and make something of them. LOOK! There's a whole niche in the market that no one is exploiting!

Or we can complain about it.

 

[redhen]

There are hungry families in the USA.. there are.
NO maybe not nazi camp starving.. but still, plenty of KIDS go hungry on a daily basis ...(i.e mom spends her welfare money on crack... etc..)
Trust me, i know this... i have had plenty of kids tell me how they used to be starving and how they used to have to fight their siblings for the last of the dry ramon noodles in the cuppard,etc..
Now these kids are food horders because of the fear of going hungry again.. cans of food under their beds.. etc..
Sure they got fed monday -friday at school lunch... so no, they werent gonna die... ( i suppose..

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But.. still.. plenty of hungry people here in the States... and its a sick shame to let it all go to waste like that.

Hell, even if they gave all that food/veggies to farmers animals.. maybe the cost of meat would drop some...

 

[WyandotteTX]

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You hit the nail on the head with that comment. In this litigious society we live in, unless there is a label on the product stating all of the myriad of uses and the possible side effects of said product the person who owns it will be open to being sued by someone who gets a tummy ache. This is the same reason why so many "raw" foods are illegal to be sold as well.
I didnt say I liked what our country has become but only stating or agreeing with the obvious of where we are now.
If everybody had pigs in their backyard like back in the day we wouldnt have alot of the waste. For that matter our chickens have always been the recipient of every table scrap or kitchen organic waste we had. They loved it and still do.

 

[WyandotteTX]

Dont count on the cost of meat going down any. My dad is a cattle rancher here in Texas and with the bad drought this past year thousands of people were selling out of the cattle business because of a lack of water or grazing. The low ball estimate is that over 600,00 head of cattle were sold to slaughter this fall in Texas. The cattle auctions were busting at the seams because of how many were selling out, some having as many as 3-4,000 head sold in a days time. Now those same auctions are having less than a 100 head each week and may have to close down operations to once a month instead of weekly. How this is going to impact beef prices in the future is a good question.......My dad has held onto his cows luckily and will continue to raise them as long as he can.

 

[Matthew3590]

I am not starving but it still becomes a cat fight for the last chicken ramen.

 

[mhwc56]

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God Bless your dad....i knew the drought has been very hard on texans but wasn't aware it had gotten to the stage that you speak of .

 

[Oregon Blues]

[[[[.........At the MONTHLY one we serve between 130-175 families each time and at the WEEKLY one we serve from 15-45 familes.We cover a small area of under 20,000 people.....]]]]]]

Yes, and those people are not hungry, because you have just fed them.

I, too, volunteer at 2 food banks, and nobody coming in for food is gaunt cheeked and skeletal. Nearly every one of them is over-weight. They all have those Internet connected cell phones. No cheap cell phones at the food bank. Everyone is wearing name brand running shoes; some of those brands cost over $100.

I know that the senior citizens living on SS are very grateful for the help with the budget. I'm sure that many people are grateful for the help with the budget. But none of those people are going hungry. They wouldn't be going hungry if the food bank didn't feed them. They night have to cancel the cell phone or the cable TV, but they could eat. If they really can not afford food, they are not going hungry, because there is the food bank, plus several places that give out free hot meals.

Children who have parents who spend their money on drugs are not really an issue of food wastage. It's a drug and money management problem, not a food issue.

Food processors are NOT throwing away chickens with a broken wing or a break in the skin. Those birds get processed as parts. Ever hear of boneless skinless chicken breast? Really damaged parts get processed for sausage or pet food. They do not go into the garbage. Double yolk eggs and cracked eggs, and thin shelled eggs are cracked open and the liquid egg is pasteurized and sold in cartons to industrial buyers.

Your film has an agenda. Use some discrimination about what you believe so that you aren't so easy to manipulate.

 

[RedReiner]

I watched it and have my opinion about it, I think some of it was edited so it looked and sounded way more dramatic than it really was. it was a really good show. but the butcher shop claiming to have to throw those chickens and turkeys away... its a butcher shop is it not? skin or bone gets broken they can not cut it up and sell it as a cut up fryer? turkey burger is popular, they can not grind the turkey meat for burger? it sounds a bit fishy to me that they have to toss a whole bird because the skin tore on a leg.
the guy selling eggs claiming to toss thousands of eggs due to size issues? he chooses to toss them, people will buy those, he just needs to market to consumers directly rather than specialty shops and restaurants. what he does not sell could be donated to the local food bank. if he is already licensed to sell privately then he can donate to the food bank. so his choice to waste his product.
the organic farmers can market produce to the local hog farmers, instead of dumping it in the compost, why do they not attempt to gain a market with hog producers? small farmers would use it, I know I would if I had a source. as for restaurant scraps, in order to feed it to hogs it must be cooked before feeding, hogs can contract human diseases and its not usually legal to feed scraps from plates as animal feed. some of the larger hog farmers do collect them and then run them thru a cooker to kill bacteria before feeding to the hogs. good way to reduce waste.
the waste I saw on that show can all be reduced, it might take a little effort and it seems to me the producers dont really care. pick the corn thats on the ground and give it to the food bank, bet you could find volunteers to pick it for them. donate the bantam eggs and double yolkers. the food bank would probably love to send someone to pick them up. as another poster said, bruised or broken? people will buy it if its marked way down, better to sell broken asparugus for 30 cents instead of tossing it in the trash...wouldnt you think?