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NotPhil  ·  4339 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Half of all food thrown away

    I actually can't read more than the summary of this, it makes me really furious.

Google was showing me the whole article, but I went ahead and switched the link to another site which is hosting the article.





notseamus  ·  4339 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know it's important to know and it's major news, but it just really bums me out and really gets to me.

My mother was telling me that we used to have a vegetable truck that would deliver vegetables to our estate. The owner one day said he had no mushrooms, only old ones, and told him that they were fine and were perfect for mushroom soup or sauce. He had just been throwing the old ones away the whole time. I think if people had better knowledge of how to use what they have and the point where something isn't edible anymore (rather than the really safe supermarket suggested dates), we could save so much.

NotPhil  ·  4339 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, I thought you meant that the original link had some sort of pay- or registration-wall that was preventing you from reading the whole article.

notseamus  ·  4339 days ago  ·  link  ·  

no, I was just really bummed by it when I read the summary earlier on the Guardian.