It’s so gross and hypocritical to frame food waste as a personal failing. Like, people are dying of hunger because someone forgot some leftovers at the back of their fridge and ended up throwing them away. Major chain grocery stores throw away millions of pounds of food because it’s “too much work” to donate it, and then poison it and destroy it when they throw it away to punish dumpster diving.
Waste is not a personal failing. It’s engineered by corporations, and they profit off of obscuring that.
Much like water waste - shaming a dripping bathroom faucet for wasting water, while hundreds of gallons get wasted in industrial settings.
Always be suspicious of micro-focused framing of environmental issues, when there’s the possibility of macro-level issues hiding behind them.
Corporations have business plans that depend on people buying more food every quarter – the Wall Street demand for continuous revenue growth. Once they have spent billions on advertising, designing, flavoring, and presenting the food in ways that prevent satiety and encourage endless snacking, we can either eat everything we bought, which is about twice as much as we need, or throw it away.
