tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783754271959896879.post6868827387768774873..comments2023-10-26T07:15:50.673-07:00Comments on An Omnivore's Decision: Waste not, want not.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783754271959896879.post-12468688141695313222017-12-08T19:56:27.851-08:002017-12-08T19:56:27.851-08:00Cool! do they drive to Patagonia? :-) Cool! do they drive to Patagonia? :-) asphaughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722661686410258976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783754271959896879.post-16711575456066969072016-05-25T10:43:06.255-07:002016-05-25T10:43:06.255-07:00I think "cost to consumer" numbers are f...I think "cost to consumer" numbers are featured in a lot of the sites on food waste. And there are some useful apps now that can help you track when your food is getting old and likely to go bad; I'm sure they could add a cost estimator, or maybe they already do. As for being dynamic, I think that's one of the areas people are working on because no, the market doesn't respond well to change. A lot of food is also wasted because it doesn't meet the high standard for production (like exact size and shape of produce), but it's still totally edible. Right now, there is no infrastructure for a secondary market or even donations of food that doesn't meet that standard. That is always going to be a wasteful system.Alyssa Rhodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01537189243997230573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3783754271959896879.post-13021135718108070362016-05-25T10:27:25.739-07:002016-05-25T10:27:25.739-07:00Financial motivators are always a big one for peop...Financial motivators are always a big one for people. It would benefit processors and growers to have less waste because they could make more profit (or more business by extending the financial wins to consumers). Wasting less food in the home is beneficial to us too because we'd spend less money. I think the hard part is thinking about how much money we actually throw out. We forget how much we spent on stuff, or don't really think about a cost associated with throwing away a few pieces of fruit or old veggies or whatever. Maybe challenging people to tally up what food goes uneaten and compute a dollar cost is a start?<br /><br />Long shipping pipelines have to be a large contributor to this problem. They have to predict way ahead of time how much food will be needed somewhere far away and can't really react to changing conditions. Or can they? If a shipload of bananas leaves Ecuador, is there dynamic routing once that ship docks in San Diego or LA or wherever? gergelykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06286612284736249290noreply@blogger.com