Rheriarty :mugicrest: on Nostr: Having worked in the grocery industry for a while, the (lack of) cleanliness and ...
Having worked in the grocery industry for a while, the (lack of) cleanliness and (poor) quality of foodstuffs was readily apparent.
To save you some scrolling, if you're buying 'fresh' vegetables or fruits from a store, they are months old by the time you buy them. You are far better off buying direct from the farm.
If you're dead set on buying from Kroger's or whoever, here are some tips:<li>Always grab 'fresh' foodstuffs from the bottom of the pile. Newest goods go at the bottom, so the oldest stuff sells first. It is done so the oldest stuff sells first, which lowers the amount of food being thrown out at the end of the week.</li><li>Buy popular, fast selling items the day after the local wholesaler's market closes to get the freshest food from the bottom of the pile.</li><li>Food that comes from out-of-state, or further afield is already weeks old. More on this later.</li>
Some foods with delicate skins, like blueberries, celery, rhubarb, cabbages of all varieties, come out of the wholesaler's market covered in mold, great heaping bushes of mold, groves of mold, a hideous rainbow bush. All items have to be washed of it before being sold. (blueberries were the bane of me because I had to clean entire packs by hand. Over 50% of the package ends up being thrown out, please grow your own, buy frozen or don't bother.)
The mold I assume is encouraged by the plastic packaging food comes in. (Overwhelmingly polystyrene foam, which likes to gather a thin black slime coating in transit) This negatively affects the shelf life, and assuredly has some nasty health effect on the consumer.
The way food is displayed is bad, fruits, vegetables, any perishables have to be taken from and removed to the main freezer store at the start and end of each day. The thawing and de-thawing harms the flavor, texture and longevity of the food. Foodstuffs are commonly stored and re-stored in used plastic containers, meaning the mold does come back and needs to be removed again.
The amount of expired food we had to throw out was incredibly. 45 to 50 percent thrown before arriving on store shelves. The 'fake' food being shown by the poor people in the video is just expired/unripened food being sold by unscrupulous vendors.
Now, Food Mileage. That's a concept used by libtards to keep track of their carbon footprint. It's not a useful measure for us, but it can be used to roughly estimate the time the food has been out of the ground i.e. in storage not near you. For those who don't know, food has to be packed and transported before it reaches your fridge. This takes time. Weeks within state/geographic area, months without. Buying closer to home means your food is on average NEWER.
It still reads poorly, but the advice is clear. That's about all I can think of. Eat well friends.RT:
https://poa.st/objects/29fc2a59-e41a-4a5f-b3e1-f9fef07d1dd5
To save you some scrolling, if you're buying 'fresh' vegetables or fruits from a store, they are months old by the time you buy them. You are far better off buying direct from the farm.
If you're dead set on buying from Kroger's or whoever, here are some tips:<li>Always grab 'fresh' foodstuffs from the bottom of the pile. Newest goods go at the bottom, so the oldest stuff sells first. It is done so the oldest stuff sells first, which lowers the amount of food being thrown out at the end of the week.</li><li>Buy popular, fast selling items the day after the local wholesaler's market closes to get the freshest food from the bottom of the pile.</li><li>Food that comes from out-of-state, or further afield is already weeks old. More on this later.</li>
Some foods with delicate skins, like blueberries, celery, rhubarb, cabbages of all varieties, come out of the wholesaler's market covered in mold, great heaping bushes of mold, groves of mold, a hideous rainbow bush. All items have to be washed of it before being sold. (blueberries were the bane of me because I had to clean entire packs by hand. Over 50% of the package ends up being thrown out, please grow your own, buy frozen or don't bother.)
The mold I assume is encouraged by the plastic packaging food comes in. (Overwhelmingly polystyrene foam, which likes to gather a thin black slime coating in transit) This negatively affects the shelf life, and assuredly has some nasty health effect on the consumer.
The way food is displayed is bad, fruits, vegetables, any perishables have to be taken from and removed to the main freezer store at the start and end of each day. The thawing and de-thawing harms the flavor, texture and longevity of the food. Foodstuffs are commonly stored and re-stored in used plastic containers, meaning the mold does come back and needs to be removed again.
The amount of expired food we had to throw out was incredibly. 45 to 50 percent thrown before arriving on store shelves. The 'fake' food being shown by the poor people in the video is just expired/unripened food being sold by unscrupulous vendors.
Now, Food Mileage. That's a concept used by libtards to keep track of their carbon footprint. It's not a useful measure for us, but it can be used to roughly estimate the time the food has been out of the ground i.e. in storage not near you. For those who don't know, food has to be packed and transported before it reaches your fridge. This takes time. Weeks within state/geographic area, months without. Buying closer to home means your food is on average NEWER.
It still reads poorly, but the advice is clear. That's about all I can think of. Eat well friends.RT:
https://poa.st/objects/29fc2a59-e41a-4a5f-b3e1-f9fef07d1dd5
quoting note15zq…cve2you guys see this? bullshit?