Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/24020529
Throwing food away because capitalism
Zero reason these couldn't be donated to a shelter. Just another example of American christian hypocrisy
My parents lived through famine in the 1950s in northern Ontario ... in Canada! They were born and raised in the wilderness and lived the first 20 years of their lives on their own without any government support, participation or inclusion. They were also survivors of the residential school system as children, so they survived IN SPITE of what the government tried to do to them.
So as children, whenever we would ever think of throwing away any edible food ... mom and dad would scold us and lecture us on the fact that they and their parents had to starve at one point in their lives.
I'm middle aged now, my parents are gone but I'll always remember their words and whenever I see any amount of food that might be thrown away, I do my best to save it, share it, preserve it ... or at the very least, give it to dogs, animals or crumble it up for birds to eat.
They taught me that one of the greatest sins that any person can perform is to waste food or deny it from someone else that might need it or use it.
Stores pour bleach on fresh produce so nobody can pull out out of the dumpster. They're rather destroy good food than feed a single mouth in need.
They attempt to cover their tracks by allowing their customers to donate to some conjob of a charity at the checkout line. This also provides them with huge tax credits/breaks which is the only real reason they even bother with donation anything.
There are laws in place now in the US that encourage businesses to donate unused restaurant food. You’d think a “Christian” company like chik-fil-a would do that.
Such good Christians.
It's mind-boggling. American Evangelical Christians could hardly be farther from the actual teachings of Jesus Christ. They're more like anti-Christians.
Edit: and thank you for making the connection that the Chick-Fil-A organization was founded and run by self-avowed "Christians" who are rabidly anti-LGBTQ.
Not food related, but this story brought the memory to mind.
I used to work at a place that bought and sold used books, games, consoles and other stuff. If a console got through inspection and it turned out not to be sellable because of minor issues, it didn't just get thrown away, they took it out back and smashed it with a sledgehammer. I have a vivid rage filled memory of there being a perfectly functional Xbox 360 that had a broken eject button that you could easily eject with a pen or paperclip that they smashed to pieces. This was when Xbox 360 was still the latest and greatest. Well, as great as it ever was, anyway.
This is honestly insane. And it's such an American way of thinking. Y'all need help.
This also happens in Europe.. My mom used to work in catering and was officially not allowed to take anything home. "just in case you make/order more so you deliberately take it home"
Daily reminder that food waste is necessary to make sure there will be enough when there is a bad harvest. Like when climate change massively reduces crop yields, or a forest fire burns down your food forest.
To some extent this can be mitigated with preserves, but preserves don't last forever and also cost labor and resources to prepare and recycle. Sometimes harvests are better than expected 10 years in a row. Sometimes they're catastrophically worse 10 years in a row. Sometimes you suddenly need to feed more people, sometimes you suddenly have better things to do than prevent food waste. You fundamentally can't prevent waste without risking shortage.
Capitalism is bad, especially when its mask slips and profit opportunities are wasted to hurt people to enforce the hierarchy that capitalism actually cares about. But please make sure you have plenty of food to waste whenever you try to set something up on your own.
Food sovereignty and food security are much more detailed and nuanced than this, but yeah this illusion of shameless abundance has been the operating principle for many decades, justified by industrial production methods at grand scale.
We now know, or rather have remembered, that diversity in production is the secret. The andean civilizations cultivated thousands of varieties of potato before colonization, so that microclimates and disease resistance and ripening and a variance of growing conditions could be addressed, for ensuring a ready supply across all possible disasters. Much of that legacy has been lost.
Industrial production squashes this kind of resilience in favour of ‘illusions of shameless abundance’, tied to scaled up methods. For instance, the Cariboo potato is a yummy garden variety but proscribed by AgCan because it messes up tractor attachments.
That is such a weak hypothesis, backed by what?
Take the cookie dough and stick it up his tailpipe
Ofc (of fucking course) it's chick fil a lol
So track how many cookies you sell and TELL employees how many to make. That way you won't be a business who both openly distrusts their employees and wastes food.
The owners didn't actually care. It was just a way to exert power over people.
Probably not really. Their reasons are likely to be exactly what they stated, a weak attempt to keep costs down. They're not cackling villains twirling their mustaches in glee at the power they hold over their peons, they're just greedy. They want the red number on the spreadsheet to be smaller, they don't care how much misery it causes. When it comes down to it, the behaviors of the owner-class can just about ALWAYS be explained, and predicted, by the simple measure of "What makes more profit."