• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You know what’s wild? That we feed roughly 9 billion people… Daily… Every day. Every. Single. Day.

    Even if we cut out the malnourished or rationed people, we are feeding in excess at least 300 million in the US. I can’t accurately understand that number of mouths to feed vs the wild. We are absolute savages and don’t even understand it. We consume animals like zombies.

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      7 months ago

      you know what’s REALLY wild? When I was a kid, there were roughly 4.5 billion people to feed every day. I’m not that old, but the global population has doubled in my lifetime. Crazy.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      On top of that, the US throws out something like…40% (I think?) of the food we produce. And a significant portion of that is food that has a long shelf-life in order to cycle out branding/labels.