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- onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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- onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Having worked in the private sector and public sector I can definitely say that the private sector wastes so much more than the government it is not even funny.
Which is bizarre because decades of propaganda have convinced everyone how wasteful the government is while the private sector discards a thousand warehouses of product without even blinking.
… what? Even under hyper-capitalism, having half your sugar-laden crop thrown out seems insane. Why is it not being used for any of a million things? Is it all just turned under as fertilizer for the “good” crops?
We are not all that enlightened of a society. Who cares what shape they are? It seems like they could find some other use for them still. Dry them even.
There are dozens or more banana variants as well, and we only have experience with 2 or 3 of them, plantains and bananas proper and the little mini ones sometimes. Same with other crops, and it leaves us reliant of chemicals to control pests with these monocultures, systematically poisoning ourselves and the land in the process.
I am sure some of it gets sold in their local market, but there is only so much banana you can eat. They destroy the rest because if they sell them to a third party it will end up in one of those discount produce stores undercutting their banana sales.
They could at least sell it for livestock feed.
But there is a banana beer too, supposed to rather gross though, according to an old elmore leonard book anyway.
I’m surprised some food processer isn’t buying them to make into pudding or something.
Carrots had this issue, but some started processing them into bite sized pieces.
Now they sell the fake baby carrots for a lot more than the whole ones too.
Banana pudding is a better idea than mine, that actually isn’t bad. I wonder dried banana powder could be useful too, for cooking and whatever.
You can also preserve Bananas by making dried Banana chips. Having too much of a fresh/shelf unstable crop could be a problem in any economic system.
Why not make banana compote, banana marmelade, and sell that?
That’s typially what people do with odd-shaped fruits.
