America is Fucked

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    Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic

    In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, a region that supplies much of the Eastern half of the United States with produce, tractors are crisscrossing bean and cabbage fields, plowing perfectly ripe vegetables back into the soil.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/…

    • America the Beautiful
      Land of the Free
      Home of the Wasteful
      utopian
    • Why is there no system in place to redistribute it?PhanLo
    • does this reflects that tremendous amount of excess what nobody actually cared about?sted
    • Could have collaborated and made cream of onion soup.shapesalad
    • The dairy stuff is so regulated by gov u can't easily adapt. The farming and supply side has long been so controlled by govsdeathboy

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