Don’t condem them all as low info voters. It wasn’t that many years ago that our grocerty store would set out allets and tables with past “sell by” dated foods, breads and produce for anyone to take for free. It beats throwing it out. Everyone would come by and pick up something. Eventually, the laws got so strict that they had to trash stuff but if you’d tell them you wanted old produce for your livestock, they’d give it to you in a clean box or sack. Again, better than throwing it out but can’t even do that now days. They eventually took their bread to the senior center and the center would set the grocery carts out on the curb so people could take it for free but, of course, they can’t do that now either. Tell me why in years past day old bread was so bad that laws had to regulated its disposal but now days we get week old hard nasty bread delivered to the grocery shelves for sale? Makes no sense. Why is it just because the store didn’t sell out of all the carrots and potatoes before the new shipment arrived that those from last week have to be trashed when they’re perfectly fine? Again, makes no sense. There used to be what we called a bent can store that would sell dented canned goods or those with no labels or some such. The food was fine but noooo, can’t sell those these days. This has nothing to do with “low info voters” at all.
Lawsuits. Many grocery stores now have sealed dumptsers with electric crushers inside to destroy and compact everything inside. Dented cans may sometimes have pinholes in the creases which can allow air molecules to spoil meat/grow mold. Yes, I remember the day old bread/donut days and the dented can displays.