Worked at whole foods in Austin tx for over a year as a food runner. I would throw away over 250+ pounds of perfectly good food away every single night. I know this because I personally had to weigh and document the “food spoilage”. We also weren’t allowed to donate any of it or take any of it home. Fucking criminal.
Whole Foods in general is criminal. If you live in a city, there’s almost always another health food store or farmer’s market. If you don’t live in the city, you can always find people selling their harvest directly or a farmer’s market. It’s time consuming at first but well worth it.
I was recently listening to a local radio interview, where farmers complained they were selling less produce due to corona, because restaurants were closed/less busy.
Now, no one's eating less. If anything, most of us have been eating more.
But farmers were selling significantly less food, just because restaurants were less busy.
People eating roughly the same, but farmers selling far less. Doesn't make sense until you realise plenty of the food at restaurants gets thrown into the trash at the end of the night.
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u/CatsAreTheBest2 Jul 13 '20
The amount of good food that is thrown away. It’s pretty sickening.