Mumbai, a place in Paradise according to the NYT.
Now who's "polluting the planet"?
Posted on 11/24/2025 7:41:31 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A major highlight of Thanksgiving is the menu, but the big meal can come with a lot of wasted food. Experts say a pinch of extra planning can ensure more gets eaten.
Roughly 320 million pounds (145 million kilograms) of food will be wasted at Thanksgiving this year, according to ReFED, a nonprofit that tracks food waste. ReFED says that’s largely because people prepare more food than is needed for the meal and then don’t finish the leftovers.
“That is essentially like five meals each for all of the food insecure people in the U.S.,” said Yvette Cabrera, food waste director at Natural Resources Defense Council.
It’s also a problem because most of that waste ends up in landfills, where it releases the potent planet-warming gas methane, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But a lot of those emissions are avoidable.
Here are some tips for a climate-smarter Thanksgiving meal without ditching tradition.
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The planet is fine.
The people, on the other hand.....
ap
all propaganda
always propaganda
(and I never capitalize ap. Ever since they decide a person of the negroid race shall be referred to as Black, not black.)
Mumbai, a place in Paradise according to the NYT.
Now who's "polluting the planet"?
What’s really harming the planet is the political operation known as the AP.
I asked Grok:
what is the nonprofit ReFED that tracks food waste? How are they funded? Why do they enjoy nagging everybody and like to suck the joy out of life?Grok came back with a serious exposition about ReFED. Here's the reply about their funding:
ReFED is primarily funded through philanthropic grants, corporate foundations, and individual donations, with a focus on unrestricted and multi-year support to maintain independence. Key supporters include major gifts like a $15 million, three-year grant from the Ballmer Group (announced in 2023), contributions from the Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation, and the Kenneth Goldman Donor Fund, among others listed on their funders page. They also run initiatives like the ReFED Catalytic Grant Fund, which pools donor money to award grants (e.g., nearly $1 million in 2025 to farm-level food loss solutions), but this is outgoing funding rather than their core revenue. As a 501(c)(3), they emphasize transparency via platforms like Charity Navigator, where they hold a strong rating for accountability.As for why they "enjoy nagging everybody and sucking the joy out of life," well, that's a bit of a spicy take—ReFED isn't out to rain on your Thanksgiving parade (though they might gently suggest composting the turkey carcass). Their advocacy style is more data-driven pep talk than scolding sermon: think annual summits, TED talks, and "action steps" for households like shopping smarter or donating extras, all aimed at tackling a problem that's as much about climate chaos and hunger as it is about your fridge's mystery Tupperware.
If it feels naggy, it's probably because ignoring 62 million tons of annual U.S. food waste annually is like leaving the AC on in an empty house—inefficient and kinda selfish. But hey, their "big tent" approach invites everyone to the party, not just the kale-munching crowd, so maybe they're secretly joy-enablers in disguise. If you're plotting a rebellion against the compost bin, hit me up for counter-strategies.
So I told Grok:
Well, I for one never have any food waste. I eat every single morsel of food I buy. Nothing ever molds or goes rotten. There are no mushy heads of lettuce in the back of the drawer. I've never seen a speck of green on a loaf of bread. I use canned food that reads "Best by June 2006."Now Grok got more cheeky:
Bravo! You’re officially the food-waste unicorn we all aspire to be. If you’re really eating 2006-era canned peaches with the enthusiasm of a survivalist on a dare, I salute your iron stomach and your commitment to the cause. (Though the USDA might quietly suggest that “best by” date was more of a polite suggestion than a lifelong guarantee.)In ReFED’s data, you’re the mythical 0.0% household waste outlier they dream about in their spreadsheets. Meanwhile, the rest of us are over here discovering penicillin in the crisper drawer and pretending the fuzzy strawberries are “fermented.”So keep living the dream, you absolute legend. Just maybe don’t invite the health inspector to dinner.I clicked the "More humorous tone" link:Oh honey, you’re not just zero-waste, you’re a full-blown food immortal.You open the pantry and the canned beans from the Y2K bunker salute and whisper, “We’ve been waiting for you, Chosen One.” Your lettuce doesn’t wilt; it achieves nirvana and ascends directly to the produce drawer in the sky. Bread in your house doesn’t get moldy; it gets knighted.
ReFED’s little data gnomes are huddled around a glowing spreadsheet right now, sobbing tears that say, “But… but our bar charts… they need a villain!” Meanwhile you’re over here licking 19-year-old SpaghettiOs off the lid like it’s artisanal truffle oil, cackling, “Reduce, reuse, regurgitate, baby!”
The rest of us peasants are googling “is it safe to cut the blue part off cheese” while you’re out here performing straight-up culinary necromancy. Teach us your ways, O Mold Slayer, before the CDC puts a bounty on your unbreakable GI tract.
We’re skipping the traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner. Instead, we’re loading up the $$ and driving 500 gas guzzling miles. We’ll be camping on the Outer Banks and driving along the pristine beaches.
We’ll celebrate God’s graciousness to our Republic at a Restaurant one night.
Nice!
FUAP
Oh shut up.
Yay, someone else who loves leftover turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sandwiches! (Pete and I discussed this recently on the Garden thread.)
They are sofa king annoying.
My son and his wife started having “meatless Mondays”, but I think they’re doing it to save a few dollars here and there. At least, I hope that’s their reason, and not the one your town used.
13 families could have eaten from that bird!
“Yes, this is a better arrangement, comrades. More just!”
The entire planet?
$$ = 4x4 gas guzzler
First off: it’s not “food insecure”—it’s downright hungry or starving because you don’t have can one on the shelf or anything in the fridge.
Really irks me those them people calling it that. I see it all over my medical appointments check-in paperwork.
Kinda like housing insecure. They are HOMELESS for varying reasons, the one I see around here the most is human trafficking. and severely mentally ill folks, a lot of them veterans.
Our family that gets together, and it’s shrunk by three this year, nothing and I mean nothing is wasted. Not any years before that nor now.
Really, it’s to the point folks are having a hard time putting food on the table because of costs. Now they’re flipping it upside down with WASTING FOOD folks don’t even have? How do you waste something you don’t have?
I think it’s pure propaganda now with this whole “food waste” thing.
Kinda like the movie “ Soylent Green” where they were showing films of people eating a meal and subbing in pig noises.
I’ll bet they call all the starving slaves working in factories all over the world pigs.
And everything else under the sun. Produce the daily quota or no rice!
Solution: murder 3/4 of the earth’s population by war, plague and genocide.
Whoo! Moonbatty!
The NRDC brought to us by the AP. Pure distilled idiocy sucked through a paper straw.
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