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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by war1025 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:55PM (#23224955)
From the first paragraph of the article:

These disturbing images have stirred outrage around the world. But here’s the surprising part: the world may not actually be wasting more than normal, when a third of global food production ends up in landfills.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by mc32 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:02PM (#23225081)
Also why are people who don’t understand the dynamics at play outraged at the people whose work keeps them fed?
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by wtetzner on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:07PM (#23225173)
They're outraged _because_ they don't understand.
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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by mc32 on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:27PM (#23225461)
That may well be true. Perhaps those covering these kinds of phenomena aren’t explaining and giving this phenomenon enough context and would rather leave their audience in shock to ponder what.
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