I have legit thrown down with shoplifters I might be a wagie but I at least have my pride and honour
Damn, bro, I'm sure :porky-happy: will notice you for saving him some paltry change. What's that? You're not doing it for him? You're potentially risking your life for some arbitrary sense of honor (likely instilled into you at a young age), despite most companies enforcing a "no heroes" policy? Shit.
I've seen this meme in particular ruffle feathers, especially in the kinds of spaces that repost fucking Stonetoss comics and transphobic fearmongering, occasionally spilling into outright fascist accounts. Similarly, they also decry the trend of "landlord hate". It makes the role of reactionary politics in bourgeois society so transparent.
God it's so gross how much just gets thrown away.
We'd just throw out the entire salad bar weekly. End of the week, every week, didn't matter how fresh stuff may or may not be...all into a 55 gallon can (sometimes multiple), and then into a dumpster. You could take some with you if you wanted before pitching it but...
Just...eughghgh.
Evergreen post, I tell you hwhat.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
This but me throwing $1300 worth of lobster into a trash compactor at the hoity-toity grocery store I worked at because the dipshit middle management sent 3 weeks' worth of lobsters all in one shipment, instead of letting us order them in batches so that we wouldn't waste money and make animals slowly die in near-frozen hibernation for no good reason because people couldn't buy them fast enough to keep up with our supply and we could only put so many in the tank at once
I used to work in a deli and my manager threatened to fire us if we took anything before throwing out our leftovers. We either had to buy it as is or toss it. This obviously didn't stop me from taking some when no one was looking but it's just so shitty. The amount of perfectly good food being trashed everyday was sickening and really opened my eyes.
i tell all my people the scan out box is basically a free goodie bag just don't get caught or get anyone else in trouble. luckily a food bank gets some of our food but it's still an insane amount getting thrown out. that and some of the food banks have volunteers taking all the expensive items to resell which really does show some american capitalist :brainworms:
ugh ugh ugh of course they do, I guess I'm not surprised but holy shit :yea:
Americans waste enough food to feed the whole world in a year