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UT1999 posted...

yeah good point. So you dudes think think if not as much food was thrown out, in the world, then there should be enough food for everyone on the planet so no one would ever go hungry?

It's decidedly more complex than that, given the logistics of getting food to the people that need it (especially in more disadvantaged countries that lack the infrastructure and/or have too much political interference to distribute it), but there's really no reason for anyone to be going hungry in the US. Enough food is thrown out because of poor planning and a refusal to do anything that might compromise the profit margins of supermarkets (specifically, discarding anything that doesn't meet the necessary standard to be sold at full price, which is generally a much higher standard than is needed for safety) that fixing those issues would allow pretty much everyone in the country to eat well. But the prevailing attitude is that people who can't afford to buy nutritious food at full price doesn't deserve it, so these issues persist.

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