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Originally Posted by Piwoslaw
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What they don't say, is
- they are subsidizing the lot of it.
- they are often mandating this waste by requiring unnecessary short "use before" periods
- they've been stacking up milk-lakes and butter-mounts in the past
- when the EU exports more excess food to developing countries, it pushes local farmers out of the market, increasing dependence and poverty (same goes for US agricultural exports BTW)
- people get arrested and convicted for dumpster-diving, which is seen as theft