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

Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by topkai22 on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:05PM (#23226975)

It is still tough to find toilet paper at retail here (Reno, Nevada), but manageable. The lack of commercially packaged TP being sold at retail or alternative market mechanisms remains one of the greate mysteries of the crisis for me. I know plenty of people who would have bought the big rolls just have something.

There was a real demand issue on TP as well- lots of people who used to only buy 1-6 roles at a time started panic buying 4x the amount.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by microcolonel on Monday May 18, 2020 @03:41PM (#23227416)

Part of problem with retooling for consumer TP is that a lot of commercial TP is lower grade than consumers are used to at home; often barely meeting the definition of “two ply”, not soft or doped with humectants.

It is not simple to retool a commercial bulk TP supplier into a consumer TP supplier, they at least need some different inputs.

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Re:Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than... by topkai22 on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:52PM (#23228209)

All true, but I was surprised I never saw a guy selling bulk rolls of TP in the parking lot (or I guess never heard how to buy it on the internet via eBay). I'm sure it existed somewhere, but it wasn't prominent enough to supply my brother and his roommates when they ran out.

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