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In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010. This amount of waste has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change:

  Wholesome food that could have helped feed families in need is sent to landfills.

  The land, water, labor, energy and other inputs used in producing, processing, transporting, preparing, storing, and disposing of discarded food are pulled away from uses that may have been more beneficial to society – and generate impacts on the environment that may endanger the long-run health of the planet.

  Food waste, which is the single largest component going into municipal landfills,external link quickly generates methane, helping to make landfills the third largest source of methane in the United States. 

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qman said:

Fonzee said:

I think nationalism is plain arrogance.
I'm don't think globalism is a smart idea, as local communities can be a very powerful, and environmentally positive, construction. I believe a city or small areas should have their own rules. Some stuff work locally and do not work globally. Also, not all resources should be shared / traded.
But I don't believe in national boarders.

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Well, there seems to be some contradictions in your reasoning, if you don't want resources to be shared, you can't have open borders.

What happens if 500 million broke third world migrants flood into the US?  What happens to our resources for US citizens?  It's gone, that's why we have national borders, citizenship and national sovereignty.

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specialpeopleclub said:

It isn't that simple. You would need logistics to get this wasted food to people.

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viraldrome said:

Borders are an invisible land on the ground that governments want to force me to believe are real. I care as much about the people on the other side of the imaginary line as I do about the people on this side of it.

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split_by_nine said:

and i know you dont throw away 1/3 of your pantry every time you go shopping. but the reality is that the USA throws away 1/3 of it's food supply. right in the trash. guess who gets to write it up as a loss? corporations. our best americans!

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split_by_nine said:

hey qman and specialpeoplesclub, how do you feel about taking every meal you eat and throwing half in the trash instead of eating the whole meal? you buy a milkshake, drink half and then chuck it in the trash. or how about you order a pizza, eat a few slices and then dump the rest in the garbage. 


america has more than enough resources. we as a country are wasting 30%-40% of all food we have access to. thirty to forty percent!!! that is an estimate. its probably much higher in reality.

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In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010. This amount of waste has far-reaching impacts on food security, resource conservation and climate change:

  Wholesome food that could have helped feed families in need is sent to landfills.

  The land, water, labor, energy and other inputs used in producing, processing, transporting, preparing, storing, and disposing of discarded food are pulled away from uses that may have been more beneficial to society – and generate impacts on the environment that may endanger the long-run health of the planet.

  Food waste, which is the single largest component going into municipal landfills,external link quickly generates methane, helping to make landfills the third largest source of methane in the United States. 

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stats from USA govt website. go nation!

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viraldrome said:

Borders are an invisible land on the ground that governments want to force me to believe are real. I care as much about the people on the other side of the imaginary line as I do about the people on this side of it.

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split_by_nine said:

we dont need to send the food anywhere. we could start by giving it to underprivileged families here at home. but nope! to the dump it goes! hows that for nationalism?

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