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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

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not wasted at my house


41 posted on 11/24/2025 8:15:42 AM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re oh eff offstupid or clueless what’s going on)
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To: All

Stop breathing! Less CO2 expelled into the atmosphere!


42 posted on 11/24/2025 8:18:29 AM PST by bennowens
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To: Bon of Babble

By the time we get around to turkey soup, the other leftovers are gone. All we end up throwing out are the turkey bones. I suppose I could dry the bones and grind them for the garden, but I don’t bother.


43 posted on 11/24/2025 8:19:47 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One way or another, where do they think the food is going to go? Have they never heard of ‘leftovers’? Even if the food is not entire consumed, it is ALREADY PRODUCED. It has to go somewhere, regardless of Thanksgiving.


44 posted on 11/24/2025 8:24:10 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh just shut up.

Leftovers are the best part of the Thanksgiving feast.

45 posted on 11/24/2025 8:24:59 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: bennowens

If they followed your suggestion, they wouldn’t have to worry about leftovers, and the rest of us would enjoy our leftovers in peace.


46 posted on 11/24/2025 8:26:36 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: simpson96

The one on the night in particular. You’d never know just by looking at her that she’s a moron


47 posted on 11/24/2025 8:26:52 AM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thus sayeth “Kiki and Caley”…


48 posted on 11/24/2025 8:27:32 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So sick of this garbage. Hopefully this philosophy is on it’s last legs.


49 posted on 11/24/2025 8:27:41 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

320 million pounds of food will be wasted at Thanksgiving this year, according to ReFED, a nonprofit that tracks food waste.
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Lord, lord, just STFU, I’m quite certain this is pure twaddle.

Further, the #1 health issues facing whom they inexplicably call “food insecure” people are overweight, metabolic syndrome, chronic insulin sensitivity, obesity, morbid obesity, and full blown Type II Diabetes. Just pathetic. Food should not be wasted, nobody would argue that but the issue here is this entire argument is just nonsense on stilts.


50 posted on 11/24/2025 8:28:40 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Then ALL leftovers must be harming the planet. I eat leftovers 3 times a week. I feel so dirty.


51 posted on 11/24/2025 8:28:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

320 million pounds of food will be wasted at Thanksgiving this year, according to ReFED, a nonprofit that tracks food waste.
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Lord, lord, just STFU, I’m quite certain this is pure twaddle.

Further, the #1 health issues facing whom they inexplicably call “food insecure” people are overweight, metabolic syndrome, chronic insulin sensitivity, obesity, morbid obesity, and full blown Type II Diabetes. Just pathetic. Food should not be wasted, nobody would argue that but the issue here is this entire argument is just nonsense on stilts.


52 posted on 11/24/2025 8:28:49 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thanksgiving and Independence Day are the two uniquely American holidays.

They've already attacked the summer family barbeque on July 4th, so now their going after the oldest foundational and patriotic holiday, Thanksgiving.

-PJ

53 posted on 11/24/2025 8:32:32 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
......climate-smarter Thanksgiving meal without ditching tradition.

Bah. Cooking too much is part of the tradition. Also, we are mostly not allowed to give leftovers to "food-insecure people".

My county forbids even restaurants giving uneaten food to shelters and "soup kitchens". The restaurant must prepare food specifically for donation. Mandated waste.

54 posted on 11/24/2025 8:33:48 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: Bon of Babble

Turkey pot pie is my favorite leftover.


55 posted on 11/24/2025 8:33:52 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Bon of Babble
one of the best parts of Thanksgiving dinner is the leftovers

Try stuffing waffles. Just add an egg to hold things together.

56 posted on 11/24/2025 8:34:20 AM PST by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Notice the names: two more women deranged with eco-pietism.

The should be beaten until converted and packed off to a convent where they can repent for the rest of their lives.

57 posted on 11/24/2025 8:39:57 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: dfwgator

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

Right. I bet once a year, at Thanksgiving, they’ll “help out”, with the family. And that’s it.


58 posted on 11/24/2025 8:41:30 AM PST by simpson96
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet

The planet is fine.

59 posted on 11/24/2025 8:43:06 AM PST by Jim Noble (Let it turn to something else, Matty)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

60 posted on 11/24/2025 8:44:06 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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