Whenever someone publicly "wastes" food for a purpose other than eating, someone else comes along and complains about it by citing "hunger in Africa".
What's your best steel man argument in support of this complaint?
What's your best steel man argument in support of this complaint?
For example, if I, living in Germany, was to take a bar of edible chocolate and just threw it in the garbage, how would this behavior negatively affect the food supply in poor countries like Yemen?
Some answers I got so far:
1. Wasting food will raise prices for globally traded food commodities, which will mean that those on lower incomes can afford to eat less.
1. Wasting food will raise prices for globally traded food commodities, which will mean that those on lower incomes can afford to eat less.
2. The money you spent on the food you didn't need could have instead been donated to charities that try to fight hunger.
3. Chastizing people who waste food serves as a psychological reminder to orient towards GRATITUDE and to recognize the true state of the world, with all its radical material inequality and crushing poverty.
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