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Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet. There are ways to shop and cook smarter
The Associated Press ^ | November 24, 2025 | BY KIKI SIDERIS AND CALEIGH WELLS

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Food; Humor; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; propaganda; thanksgiving

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To: Bon of Babble

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AeKizzQpPpY&t=14s&pp=ygUjRnJpZW5kcywgcm9zcyB0aGFua3NnaXZpbmcgc2FuZHdpY2g%3D


21 posted on 11/24/2025 7:55:48 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Natural Resources Defense Council? P*ss off Yvette.


22 posted on 11/24/2025 7:56:51 AM PST by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here are the two Towering Intellects that wrote this:


23 posted on 11/24/2025 7:56:52 AM PST by simpson96
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To: ConservativeMind

While driving your electric car?


24 posted on 11/24/2025 7:57:25 AM PST by silent majority rising ( United Israel - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - US get out of the UN-we are not United with them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

> Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet. <

Fill in the blank below. Put in anything you want, as long as it’s related to humans. Combing your hair. Doing crossword puzzles. Whatever.

Then submit it to the AP. They’ll print it.

__________ is harming the planet.


25 posted on 11/24/2025 7:58:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: simpson96

Yeah, they look like the kind of people who cook their own meals. /s


26 posted on 11/24/2025 8:00:02 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Give some actual examples of Global Warming, Pravda.


27 posted on 11/24/2025 8:00:15 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They feel the strong need to put a damper on Thanksgiving, don’t they?

Some people can’t resist making a political statement, can they?

I remember a number of years ago when Obama was still president, they distributed talking points about the joys of Obamacare, to discuss at Thanksgiving dinner with your ignorant relatives.


28 posted on 11/24/2025 8:00:50 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: simpson96

You can bet these “writers” went to ChatGPT and entered.

“Write an article to make people who enjoy Thanksgiving dinner feel guilty. Incorporate climate change into the story.”


29 posted on 11/24/2025 8:03:20 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they are a threat to my husbands waistline!


30 posted on 11/24/2025 8:03:55 AM PST by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: Bon of Babble
No doubt. We always use up the leftovers, not much ever gets thrown out. I'll freeze the
carcass for later use making turkey gumbo.

31 posted on 11/24/2025 8:04:35 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We finish our leftovers.


32 posted on 11/24/2025 8:05:15 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (You’ve not seen the darkness in the hearts of men who realize no one is coming to save them.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We NEVER, EVER “threw out” Thanksgiving leftovers. The bird stayed in the fridge, and you snacked by picking at it. If you were lucky, there was still some “in the bird” stuffing. The mashed potatoes are a little worse for the wear, but nothing that gravy cannot save. Repeat for sweet potatoes, substituting butter for gravy. The only thing that might not go quickly would be the canned cranberry sauce. That would go okay with reheated mashed potatoes and gravy.


33 posted on 11/24/2025 8:05:45 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: God luvs America
my uber liberal town used to have “Meatless Mondays” to combat “climate change”

I am traditionally practicing Catholic, so we have meatless Fridays, but it is a penance. Why couldn't thelefties piggyback on that?
34 posted on 11/24/2025 8:07:05 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: dfwgator

[[Why did two people have to write this?]]

Because 2 defective brain cells are better than 1?


35 posted on 11/24/2025 8:09:51 AM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kiki and Caleigh. An old 1970s Disney Princess pop music group.


36 posted on 11/24/2025 8:11:09 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("Indiginous Indian Day is now gone with RATS trying to pass themselves off as Rockwell Americans.)
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To: dfwgator

Every emission from AP harms the planet. Two writers can harm it that much more.


37 posted on 11/24/2025 8:11:25 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

[[Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet.]]

One thing you can always count on is the fact that somewhere some perpetually outraged liberal will try to ruin the celebrations of an entire planet if they can get away with it-

somewhere someplace some unhinged liberal has the mads and isn’t happy unless they are making everyone around them miserable


38 posted on 11/24/2025 8:13:48 AM PST by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: dfwgator

Each one wrote every other word. Kinda’ like the ubiquitous talking head male/female tag team doing tv news TV shows...

My advice to the reporters, if you want to fix food waste,DO SOMETHING, don’t just write.


39 posted on 11/24/2025 8:13:55 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kill yourself, save the planet.


40 posted on 11/24/2025 8:15:28 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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