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I agree with you but there are logistic challenges to getting 1/3 of a banana to the person who needs it. This example may seem silly but it's a realistic example of household food waste.
But I agree that solving hunger should be a society's top priority which it clearly isn't under a food for profit model
The issue I see is overpriced food leading to low amount of buyers so the food spoils. Because Loblaws doesn't care about feeding everyone they want most profit even if it means tossing food away to maintain the pricing
It's not 1/3 of a banana. It is a batch of bananas that are slightly brown. It is 4 unsold donuts at closing. It is unsold merchandise they throw away to make room for new product.
It has NOTHING to do with logistics. The food is already at the store. The only difference is the store manager being forced to say YES at the end of the day when a hungry employee asks to take the unsold food that would otherwise go into the dumpster home.
You're only looking at retail and you're discarding what I've said about household food waste.
Globally, the majority of food waste, around 61%, occurs in households
From Wikipedia: "Food loss and waste is food that is discarded or otherwise lost uneaten. This occurs throughout the food system, during production, processing, distribution, retail and food service sales, and consumption. Overall, about one-third of the world's food is thrown away, and a similar proportion of calories is lost on top of that by feeding human-edible food to farm animals. A 2021 meta-analysis by the United Nations Environment Programme estimated that global food waste amounted to 931 million tonnes annually (about 121 kg per person) across three sectors: 61 percent from households, 26 percent from food service and 13 percent from retail.".
More sources https://www.usda.gov/about-food/food-safety/food-loss-and-waste/food-waste-faqs#%3A%7E%3Atext=In+the+United+States%2C+food%2Cfar-reaching+impacts+on+society:
And
https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=43836&v=0 check the summary PDF
Utilizing household food waste is a matter of getting uneaten food to people who would eat it. It's incredibly difficult, this is the challenge that I referred to as logistics.