Anybody watch "Eatn It" special on msnbc from 10-12PM?

[napi21]

It's really sad but very true that the US throws away almost as much food as we eat. My husband was a meat cutter in supermarkets for many years, and it's astonishing how much meat gets tossed every day! Every item in the meat case has a # of days it can be for sale. The stores he worked in would NOT sell it half price, or even to the employees as a discount! It's not bad or poison after that date, but it doesn't LOOK as pretty as it did. T Bones, Porter house. roasts, chicken, hams, different fish, everything is just tossed in a locked dumpster. Same goes for produce, boxed goods like crackers, cereal, pastas, etc. that have reached their expiration date,

Produce is horrible on waste. If it's not PRETTY, throw it out!

This special even showed me some things I didn't know. Big farms that mostly supply supermarkets trim and sort most products in the field. The pickers doing celery have a knife they use to whack off the bottom, whack off the top and remove 4-5 outer stalks then slip it in a bag. The guy showing this displayed one sq. ft. of ground where he probably had 20 pounds of good and usable celery, but the parts the supermarket doesn't want because it's not PRETTY!

I'm sure MSNBC will rerun this, and/or have it available on line. If you get the chance, watch it.