Comments on: Nova Scotia News http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/08/07/nova-scotia-news/ a look at how America squanders nearly half of its food Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:26:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jonathan http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/08/07/nova-scotia-news/#comment-3015 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:23:21 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/08/07/nova-scotia-news/#comment-3015 Thanks for your insight, Lindsay. Your idea to feed animals with excess crops is a good one. It's advocated by the EPA in their <a href="http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/organics/fd-hier.htm" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Food Waste Recovery Hierarchy</a> as a better use of food than composting. I'm not sure I understand your first point, though. An excessive supply would seem to lower crop prices. Unfortunately, it's hard to convince farmers to grow less food than they can, given their predilction for abundance and healthy fear of crop failure. So we end up with huge excesses that are stored, to prevent a price-lowering flood of the market. American hunger isn't caused by a lack of food but poor distribution, a result of good ol' capitalism. Thanks for your insight, Lindsay. Your idea to feed animals with excess crops is a good one. It’s advocated by the EPA in their Food Waste Recovery Hierarchy as a better use of food than composting.

I’m not sure I understand your first point, though. An excessive supply would seem to lower crop prices. Unfortunately, it’s hard to convince farmers to grow less food than they can, given their predilction for abundance and healthy fear of crop failure. So we end up with huge excesses that are stored, to prevent a price-lowering flood of the market. American hunger isn’t caused by a lack of food but poor distribution, a result of good ol’ capitalism.

]]> by: lindsay http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/08/07/nova-scotia-news/#comment-2933 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:08:29 +0000 http://www.wastedfood.com/2007/08/07/nova-scotia-news/#comment-2933 Hello Jonathan! This seems like such a double edged sword, farmers must grow tremendous amounts of food to be able to sell it for a competitive price=stay in business, and yet they are throwing so much right in the garbage. I wonder if we could use all this waste to at least feed our free range friends or encourage the Perdue's of the world to use recycled food to feed their chickens instead of letting them sit in and eat their own 'stuff'. That would solve two problems at once, make healthier food and reduce waste! Thanks for the insight. Lindsay Hello Jonathan!
This seems like such a double edged sword, farmers must grow tremendous amounts of food to be able to sell it for a competitive price=stay in business, and yet they are throwing so much right in the garbage. I wonder if we could use all this waste to at least feed our free range friends or encourage the Perdue’s of the world to use recycled food to feed their chickens instead of letting them sit in and eat their own ’stuff’. That would solve two problems at once, make healthier food and reduce waste!
Thanks for the insight.
Lindsay

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