• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Given the sheer volume of food waste produced to begin with: it sure don’t have to be as ‘efficient’.

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      5 months ago

      A third of all food goes uneaten in the USA, at the CONSUMER AND RETAIL LEVEL. It’s not going to waste on the farm, nor would that change from gardening on your own.

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        5 months ago

        Right, the yields of the industrialized farms are what go to waste. You dont need a level of productivity that gets bottlenecked at what I’ll definely broadly and loosely as ‘distribution’–from a garden.