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posted January 07, 2012 09:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
airing on the Food Network this Sunday.

couldnt believe the amount of veggies one grower was about to throw away saying something in the commercial about Americans thinking and wanting a fruit or vegetable to look a certain way (i'm guessing those ones had some sort of imperfection but wouldve been fine to eat but were instead being thrown out?)

from the web:

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I was watching Food Network last night, when I saw a commercial airing for an interesting special called the Big Waste. It’s a food competition that is meant to show how we waste food in America. Bobby Flay and Michael Symon will be competing against Anne Burrell and Alex Guarnaschelli. Their mission is to make a gourmet three course meal using food that was headed for the trash. This will include gathering food from grocery stores and farms. They have 48 hours to prepare the food for 100 guests.

I am interested to see what insight they have to show America about how much food we are wasting. I have helped out at an orchard before I have heard stories that in years where there was a big surplus, they had to dump already picked apples into a huge field, because they couldn’t find anything else to do with them.

This special airs this Sunday, January 8th at 10pm ET/PT. It will re-air on January 9th ET/PT at 1am and Janaury 14th at 4pm ET/PT. I plan to do a review of the show, right after it airs, so check back!
http://www.eatlikenoone.com/the-big-waste-airing-on-food-network-this-sunday.htm[/QUOTE]

Looks like an interesting one.

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LEXX
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posted January 07, 2012 11:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OMG!
Give me all those sub standard veggies please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Use to be grocery stores would give me big bags/boxes FREE of their trimming the veggies to make them look pretty/perfect on display.
Many weeks I could get 20 or more pounds of this so called "garbage",
which was comprised of;
cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Romaine, Many types lettuce, Mustard, Collards, Turnip and Turnip greens, Kolarobi, Broccoli, Broccoli Flower, Cauliflower, and at times slightly damaged tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, berries,
Onions, scallions, Leeks......
the list just goes on!
Yet they threw these good eats out.

Nowadays I guess there are laws against giving this garbage away, even to soup kitchens.

And wtf??????????
I know of too many poor folks who refuse to eat such things.
I just do not get it.

Oh!
And farmers!
Grrrrs!
There was this place I picked cucumbers for their Commercial Pickling.
Well found out that they also pickled green Italian tomatoes.
However,
once the tomatoes ripened,
they plowed them under!

I was allowed (sadly for one year only)
to go gather the beautiful red ripe Italian tomatoes for FREE!
I will see if I can find a picture of me in my tomato mountain!
I canned up some 500 quarts of tomatoes, juice, sauce, etc.
I even got some free canning jars!

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LEXX
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posted January 07, 2012 11:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Any orchard too stupid to make cider from excess apples is being very wasteful and stupid.
Same for most farmers,
plow it under rather than give it away.
Geeez.

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juniperb
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posted January 07, 2012 12:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Folks here were able to glean fields for eons until the State stepped in and hollered it was unsafe for insurance purposes. People "might" get hurt then sue.

Now many ugly potatoes and such are just plowed under instead of being eaten by the hungry.

Altho the larger farms with the funds to do so; harvest the uglies and donate to food banks so not all is lost

We must remember the farmers arn`t stupid or meanies but lack the funds to harvest, process then truck out to donate.

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posted January 07, 2012 12:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for LEXX     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
True on all counts.
That was what I was told too.
I used to do a lot of gleaning for potatoes and corn, and other leftovers.
And yeah, the costs to redistribute are counter to things.

At least some is not being wasted.

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mockingbird
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posted January 07, 2012 12:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mockingbird     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I wonder if a blanket (state by state) liability waiver could be written up so that gleaning could resume.

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juniperb
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posted January 07, 2012 12:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I imagine Mbird, that`s the only way it can resume.

I know the farmers want it done and many in MI have petitioned the state..

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posted January 08, 2012 04:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Something definitely needs to be done about this. How ridiculous.

Like mockingbird, i thought....why not make up a simple waiver as a solution to the liability laws banning gleaning...? Easy fix.

We have so many starving on this planet or getting by on less nutritious foods because it's all they can afford when it could be much different....

shaking head...

insanity.

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posted January 08, 2012 04:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for anongrl10     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
{{{shudder}}}

It indeed is the Big Waste... And unfortunately this is a global phenomenon not just US-based.
That's what is worthy of my voting, of my concern and of my news, not the crappy gossipy TV programs and crappy irrelevant politician speeches... {{shakes head in disbelief}}
That's the stuff that truly matters and everyone ought to know about. And vote to DO something about it.
Not let insanity rule when people daily beg for food in the streets of every big city around the globe...

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posted January 08, 2012 04:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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lechien
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posted January 08, 2012 10:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for lechien     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
one of the things that felt so surreal while living in the US was the uniformity and the lack of seasonal feeling on their produce shelves... unless it's a gourmet produce market in NYC. then i moved where i am now, and i'm rather glad at least that i get rotten vegetables if i'm not careful from time to time.

as someone said before, one of the big factors is also the established expectations from the customers, who demand perfection for what they pay. of course that's customers' basic rights, but it's become disproportional. here, if i get something rotten, i don't go file a case against the market, i just bring them back and supermarkets would just exchange it. it's just nature, they don't sell plastic and i don't eat plastic. if i pick a rotten one, i was careless. and of course i don't think they mixed in rotten ones on purpose, and it's the customer's own choice to select fresher ones. the fact they rot is probably a good indication that it has not been exposed to too much chemical stuff.


on the other hand, i miss the "dumpster" system in some US cities. you can go to the back alley just after bakeries close, and they often put all what they did not sell on the day in gigantic plastic bags to deter the rats and throw them away. rats get into them anyway, but if you go before rats get there, free giant bags of half-day old bread! and it's usually the expensive bread that don't sell and go straight to the dump. (though you wouldn't want to get caught because it's "stealing" even though it's garbage)

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posted January 08, 2012 07:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
leichen

reminder - it's on tonight.

i still think the farmers could ALSO try harder. I bet they truly hate to see their products demolished too.

like don't say: '"I'm terribly sorry you are starving or in need, but you might end up slipping on this half rotten or weird looking tomato while picking my strawberries..... yes, i understand youre malnourished and starving, but if you fell and cracked your head open in the dirt i might get sued. So sorry, limp your vitamin deficient self away and starve while i throw this crap away.'


Time for change.

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Emeraldopal
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posted January 08, 2012 10:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Emeraldopal     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm watching it right now!

Gosh, do you think the U.S.
is the most wasteful country?

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posted January 09, 2012 11:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I missed it! arghh! Guess I will have to catch it on Jan 14th when it re-airs.

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