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RE: An Ongoing Food Crisis In Venezuela
It's sad that there are so many countries in this world where people go hungry every day.. yet in North America, Europe and othet developed parts of the world, a disgusting amount of food is wasted on a daily basis because it doesn't fit our standards of how a food should look, or it's approaching or past it's sell-by date.
It's going to take change on a global scale to rectify these human-created issues.. it always blows my mind that the world can stand by while people suffer because of government corruption and poor decision-making. It's not the people who have run the economy into the ground, it's corrupt officials and violence that do that real damage
It's absurd... I used to work at a Gas Station and at the end of shift all the the semi-fresh food (sandwiches etc...) which amounted to AT LEAST $50, some times ~$150 was thrown out EVERY DAY! and the employee would be punished if they tried to give it away to a homeless person or anything like that.
I can't imagine how much gets thrown out in restaurants, hotels etc...
We work in restaurants when we're not traveling and it's absolutely ridiculous how much goes to waste.. it hurts my heart to think about it.
In Canada I think there's actually laws against supermarkets donating their expired food.. which blows my mind!!! I remember one hippie town we lived in, people would dumpster dive outside the market because the food was mostly still good. But then they statted cracking down on people doing it.