• littlecolt@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Every day when I get off work and I go to a local gas station, I see them throw away a bunch of prepared food that passed shelf life. Thus is a chain, so hundreds of locations do this every day. Tons of food per year, tossed in the trash because it sat in the heat box too long.

    Imagine how many people could eat that food. It makes me upset.

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      11 months ago

      May be they are avoiding getting sued. If someone gets sick. Especially junk food, which is unhealthy to begin with

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        11 months ago

        This has been long debunked. Laws have passed that protect owners from this.

        I used to work in a sandwich shop that made it’s own bread fresh daily. At the end of every day the owner started donating the leftover bread and explained how it’s an urban myth.

        People just don’t like to share.