[LA Times] Americans will throw out 316 million pounds of food on Thanksgiving. Here's how it fuels climate change

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Foiled by the paywall, but this one didn’t have one.

And it seems to include some helpful ideas! Are there usable tips in the LA Times article?

A few more tips.

I had to read the 2024 article on Chrome Incognito. Suggestions were:

The simplest thing is to reduce the amount of extra food being produced in the first place.

Fixing inefficient machinery that makes it hard to harvest all of a crop

Bettering poor roads that prevent food from making it from farm to table

Iimproving packaging, so food stays good for longer.

Training restaurant workers can be better trained to prepare food in a way that avoids waste.

Retailers can be encouraged to avoid over-buying and to stop the practice of stocking only perfect-looking produce and discarding the rest.

Consumers can be encouraged to eat all of what they buy and lower the temperatures on their refrigerators to delay food from going bad.

Get retailers to change how they label foods, given that many consumers throw out products if they are past their sell-by date (change to “use by”)

Recovery and redistribution — getting food that is about to spoil into the hands of hungry people.

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Thank you! I get tempted by LA times and click too often. I used to subscribe. I’m sure “they” know that.

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OMG!!!
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any extremist claiming anything MUST be accepted as ABSOLUTE TRUTH.

Firefox private mode might work. I have Apple News + and it carries the LA Times. Apple News (not +) might work to read it.

there is no substitute for ‘thinking’

The extras if any go to the Ravens and the animals who feed at night . Always gone in the morning. Everyone gets fed

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These guys have been at it for something like 40 years