Food Waste: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters reference it as a source in threads on food waste, donation and landfill methane.
What it is
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on food waste covers how producers, sellers and consumers throw away huge amounts of food, including sell-by dates and donation myths.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2015 to 2017.
What Hacker News said
Cites dostick · 2015-08 · on “13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County”
That's a myth. You absolutely can donate food and there's no any law forbidding or giving you any legal consequences. Stupid myth that gets tons of food wasted every day. Check out the recent John Oliver piece about it, [this video]
Cites the_ancient · 2015-09 · on “Government officials in Amherst, VA can now require employers to fire ex-cons”
>>>you mean we can't prevent people from bringing an AK47 in school, as long as they don't shoot anyone? As a matter of General Law, no. However if the property owner, in this case the school board, chooses on their own to disallow guns on their property then a person violating that would be guilty of criminal trespass. This is true for a Starbucks, Walmart, your personal home or any other property. That being said the issue gets a little more tricky when it comes to government run property, with government run property I tend to come down on what I think is a reasonable position of if you are not required by law to be there then the individual government agencies can restrict gun possession
Cites rootlocus · 2016-05 · on “Italian court rules food theft 'not a crime' if hungry”
Considering the massive amounts of food that gets thrown away even before the expiration date, I'm amazed this is even an issue. There was an entire episode of "Last Week Tonight" on this topic: [this video]
Cites brightball · 2017-02 · on “Robots Rule at Swiss Factories as Strong Franc and Wages Bite”
I know I've heard at least recently that even biodegradeable materials will end up producing lots of methane in a landfill. Not an expert, clearly... [this video]