I have to admit, I’m a bit jealous. I never got to go through the activist phase where I was Very Concerned and wanted to become vegan, join every non-profit, and fight every injustice against man or beast on the planet.
It was a serious video; maybe my description of it is off because I saw it once a couple of years ago and can’t seem to find the link.
I finally found the link. (It doesn’t begin until about 45 seconds into the video.)
Well that was certainly… a thing that happened. (Also, while still probably a great way to get diseases*, transporting “wasted” food over biking distance is a bit different from transporting it between continents).
- Yeah, I know, not eating at all is worse than eating some stranger’s scraps, probably. Still there tends to be a reason why charities don’t ask for your leftover KFC.
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You wanna see wasting food? Have fun. No I don’t care if they actually ate it, the mere premise of making that is ridiculous to the extreme.
Have you ever tried to eat a jack o’lantern pumpkin? They’re edible, but trust me, they don’t taste very good, and they are stringy and hard to peel. The seeds are good roasted, however. Giant pumpkins are not grown for human consumption at all, but the people who grow them sell the seeds and give or sell the pumpkins themselves to people who raise free-range poultry, who love them.
If you want to eat pumpkin, get pie pumpkins, or better yet, a “neck pumpkin” that looks like a big gourd. Those are where most commercial pumpkin comes from, because they’re mostly nice, sweet, easy-to-peel flesh.
I also think those much-publicized eating contests are disgusting.
There isn’t a fixed quantity of Wonder Bread in the world that can either go into a video chef’s trash can or to starving third world waifs. If you use less food, the food people you buy it from are just going to make less of it. That might be a good thing for several reasons, but it’s not because it will solve world hunger. There aren’t wealthy people sitting in their empty supermarkets mourning over the fact that Americans hogged all the food.
Food is a funny thing. Throw away $10 of food and it feels like a waste, but people will happily blow away more than that on their hobbies, which can be just as wasteful e.g. going on a road trip.
I hated that video, btw. It’s a pointless waste of time. I can’t believe anyone would watch more than one of his videos.
I am unclear. Was that a sarcastic or a serious remark?
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I hated that video, btw. It’s a pointless waste of time. I can’t believe anyone would watch more than one of his videos.
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It is just a new thing in my high school people are obsessed over. I agree with you though. I may laugh lightly at the videos, but I found the videos to be pretty pointless and stupid too.
OK, speaking of your high school, how much food is wasted in the cafeteria every day? If it’s typical, I’d imagine a lot of food is thrown away uneaten.
I see what you mean Dewey Finn and I was ignoring this earlier but yes, HowToBasic is not making a dent in affecting the amount of food wastage. Whether HowToBasic keeps making those kinds of videos or not is not going to have a noticeable effect on the total amount of food wastage. However, I still think HowToBasic is at best silly, nonsensical, and stupid, but that is just my opinion.
You’ve previously mentioned your interest in attending a top university. I think you mentioned the nerdy school in Cambridge. (IMHO, it’s OK but the nerdy school in Troy NY is better.) If you feel strongly about the issue of food wastage, can you think of a way that you can address this problem in a meaningful way? Perhaps you can organize a program within your school to prevent usable food from going to waste in the cafeteria, and then bringing that food to a food bank or soup kitchen. For example, how many apples and bananas get thrown out untouched? Ideally, you would be able to quantify the effect of your program in some way. (So many pounds of food diverted from the waste stream versus how many pounds of food provided to the food bank or soup kitchen.)
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It appears that the factual aspects of the question have been answered, and that this discussion at this point mainly consists of debate and opinion. However, because of the number of personal remarks in this thread, I’m going to close this instead of move it. Anyone who wishes to continue a debate on the subject may open a new thread in GD.
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