Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever

Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by save_ferris on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:18PM (#23225337)

The problem with this strategy is that most restaurants cannot survive on reduced capacity or economic participation by the public. A huge percentage of people aren’t going to patronize restaurants until a vaccine is found, and if things open back up and people don’t show, we’re going to have a very different economic problem on our hands.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by ThisIsTheWay on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:23PM (#23225410)

> "The problem with this strategy is that most restaurants cannot survive on reduced capacity or economic participation by the public."

No shit, but 100% of restaurants would fail with zero capacity. A partial open is better than nothing.

> "and if things open back up and people don’t show, we’re going to have a very different economic problem on our hands."

What would that be?

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by option_greek on Monday May 18, 2020 @01:56PM (#23225935)

Change in long term behavioural patterns.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by ThisIsTheWay on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:58PM (#23226892)

That's may be causing an economic problem, but it isn't the problem itself.

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