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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: formerlurker on January 10, 2012, 04:59:35 AM
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Kindly add chicken coop worker and chef in Red Cross kitchen.
nadinbrzezinski
The MOST important program on the FOOD NETWORK (re hunger)
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So last night the Food Network ran a show on food waste in this country. Yes, they had an element of competition between two teams of world class chefs... if they did not, it would not be the food network. But here was the purpose of the show... make a banquet for one hundred people, out of food that is on the way to the garbage or compost pile.
In the beginning our chefs doubted they could find food that you could actually serve and prepare... alas they did.
You see, if you go to the store and ever have asked why apples have almost no blemishes... it is because we have been trained so well as consumers that stores cannot sell an apple with a slight blemish on it. This leads to tens of thousands of tons of perfectly usable food going to the trash. Heck, they had some peas as an example... I always wondered why I never find spotted pea pods. They are fine, they are perfectly edible, they just don't go on the shelf and instead go to the trash. I have bought them in that state in MEXICO.
And that was but one example.
Eggs... well I knew this from working in a coup... but hens lay eggs in all kinds of sizes. The bigger the egg the thinner the shell. Some are truly three times a normal egg and tend to have two yolks, and come from older hens. No, you will not find the really tiny ones at the store, or the really huge ones... they go... you guessed it, to the trash.
Of course they raised the issue. In my mind this perfectly usable food should go to food pantries and the rest of places that feed people. They could also go to your local lunch programs. And that is the next step they did not raise, but it should.
And to quote Michael Szymon... as he saw a patch of perfectly usable tomatos on the compost heap... that is marinara. What a shame.
nadinbrzezinski
10. We used to get some of that at the kitchen at the red cross hospital
Helping the nuns cook was always a... what did we get today kind of an exercise.
So yes, every bit helps
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There are reasons for all the food wasted in this country.
They're called the FDA, and the USDA.
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There are reasons for all the food wasted in this country.
They're called the FDA, and the USDA.
I can't speak for the whole nation but around here most of that thrown away food got recycled through peoples pig pens. Slop the hogs and let them make it edible. Not anymore, FDA/USDA/health department stopped that.
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Stupid DUmpmonkey nadin. That blemished, misshapen, undersized, partially spoiled produce doesn't go to waste.
Its price is doubled, and it's placed on the "organic" shelf.
Moonbats will pay a high premium for the word "organic", and they expect the blemishes because it's so pure and natural.
It is no more pure and natural than any other produce. It's just blemished.
Stupid, stupid moonbats.
They didn't tell nadin that in the "coup".