That’s awesome! Glad to hear that silver lining.

After reading the article, I’m left wondering how US food waste breaks down between originating from individual households vs grocery retailers, commercial retail food/restaurants and ag suppliers.

It’s been a while, but I remember reading about how there’s little incentive (maybe it’s even prohibited?) for retailers to send reject and expiring food to food banks instead of throwing it out. I feel like this should be more of a concern considering the demand to food banks is probably going to increase rapidly while funding and donations will likely decrease with the current economic turmoil.

I suspect we could curb a significant amount of food waste by creating a pathway to divert food waste instead of disposing it outright. Of course, such pathway would need to meet food safety standards while providing a clear regulatory framework to address liability and logistical aspects to make it more profitable to divert vs dispose.

Anyone from outside of the shithole have any input on how this works in your country?

Yep! It made the rounds back when he became Speaker of the House.

Idk, it’s well documented that he has a weird “porn accountability” arrangement with his kid though. Meaning they monitor each other’s keystrokes to make sure the other’s not stroking their sin stick.

Spending a shitload of time on here bitching that other people aren’t resisting the way they want apparently.

Does it really matter if he’s deliberately advancing a fascist agenda?

I’m not vegan, and I agree. I’m the cook in my household, and a dozen eggs feels like it lasts forever. In my experience, they’re largely optional outside of baking, which is admittedly probably only because I haven’t experimented enough with applesauce/auquafaba/flax/etc. to get consistent results. Sure, some recipes like carbonara or shakshuka need eggs, but by optional I mean you can plan to make something else where they’re less essential.

The funny thing is I’ve only noticed dramatic price increases with shittier quality eggs. My local co-op’s prices have held steady throughout the bird flu pandemic, and they sell fairly local cage free dozens for like half the price of the big chain grocery’s store brand.

I get that many folks relied on eggs as a cheap protein source that’s quick and easy to prepare. I hope people that have poor food security are able to pivot to other cheap proteins like lentils and beans. There’s a little learning curve, and they’re not as quick, but they’re not hard to dress up with aromatics and stock to make a tasty source of protein and fiber.

In case you’re not being facetious, he was contracted to direct a series for Netflix from which the alleged fraud occurred. They refer to him as a Hollywood director in the article.

Hmm… I’m not in those departments, but I already have a conclusion for their report: if that happens, you will be assassinated.

Shrooms

Yep. It’s so backwards… Like if you can focus on collecting the same amount of taxes from a few rich assholes every year, why even bother with the other millions of us? I mean, I know it’s rigged against us plebs, but it makes no sense from a workload management perspective.

Right, I think it’s maybe representing the 20 highest grossing food brands in the US, whether they’re US companies or not.

The right just elected someone with boobs, homie

Edit: I’m on mobile and can’t tell if this uploaded blurry or not (looks kinda rough to me). Here’s the source.

Here’s one with images (not 100% US specific):

Yup, stands for community supported agriculture. They’re often called co-ops or farm shares, but I think CSA is the industry term that you’ll have most luck with when searching around online.

You could try researching CSAs in your area. There are a few near me that sell farm shares with weekly pickup of seasonal veggies during harvest season. I’m in northern California, and our rate is under $20 per week after we split it with another couple. We usually receive more veggies than we would buy during a weekly grocery store trip, plus our farm let’s everyone pick fresh bouquets each pickup as a nice bonus.