But we are. According to the USDA, food waste makes up 22% of the food industries 26% CO2 emissions. And don't forget the diseases food waste produces.

[–] UhBell@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That food waste is largely due to arbitrary date labels and grocery stores throwing out literal tons of perfectly good food instead of donating it.

[–] desconectado@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And believe it or not, part of this is because people don't like to pick up the weird looking tomato, or the banana with a few peckles.

[–] darkseer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to the USDA, again, the majority of food waste is at the household level.

[–] UhBell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Circling back to the arbitrary date labels

[–] Tonloc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How can we sell more without an expiration date?!!! We need to please the profits and shorten expiration dates!