When I worked birthday parties we served pizza and sometimes, if the parents didn't take it home with them, we would have 10-20 half eaten pizzas at the end of the day. In Culver City, the three of us would go drop it off to homeless. But in the other location - Manhattan Beach - there aren't really any homeless. I would text my friends and the hungry growing high school boys would drive up at the speed of light to grab it. But usually that only got rid of 3-6 pizzas and we would have to dump the rest. It made me so frustrated. I know pizza isn't the healthiest option but it's pretty damn filling and could have made at least 10 people pretty happy for a night. And this was every Saturday and every Sunday for 3 years. If you think of these two little locations and then multiply it by about 10 million to apply to every kids birthday place, every corner deli, every bakery, every grocery store, every catered event, every restaurant, it's really quite despicable.
Yeah definitely. I've heard of some places starting composting sites at dumps and landfills and while that's great and all, there are still people who can't eat healthfully, or even at all. If the U.S. can provide aid to people in other countries in the form of food, I'd think that more attention would be paid to making sure that at least kids get proper nutrition.