It’s not only rice that gets thrown out. Perfectly good looking peaches may get thrown out too. I think it shows the flawed way of the American lifestyle. When I looked at this I remembered reading an excerpt from Manahatta that made me think:
“It has been estimated that if the entire world lived the way Americans do today, it would take four planet Earths to supply the global population’s resource requirements.“
I think a huge chunk of this lifestyle is our excessive need for abundance. We get a lot of food, intake a part of it and disregard the rest while there are people on some other edge of the world starving.
Aside from that, this waste just takes up public space.
True. So much thoughtless waste. Four planet Earths!