{"id":3790,"date":"2020-09-03T14:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:19:08","slug":"dumped-milk-smashed-eggs-plowed-vegetables-food-waste-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/dumped-milk-smashed-eggs-plowed-vegetables-food-waste-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumped Milk, Smashed Eggs, Plowed Vegetables: Food Waste of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/11\/business\/coronavirus-destroying-food.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/11\/business\/coronavirus-destroying-food.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This&nbsp;article<\/a> from the New York Times explains that many farms are creating an excess amount of food that cannot be distributed to&nbsp;people in need.&nbsp;Due to the fast decline of restaurant&nbsp;usage&nbsp;nation-wide, food demand is looking vastly different.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmers of Dairy, Poultry, and Veggies are producing more food than they are able to&nbsp;get rid of.&nbsp;Not only is all their storage filled, but distribution costs are preventing this food&nbsp;from reaching the hands of families that really need it.&nbsp;The image above shows an entire ditch of onions that will soon be buried because&nbsp;farmers literally can\u2019t even give them away.&nbsp;More than&nbsp;4 million gallons of milk is being&nbsp;dumped out daily because of this&nbsp;phenomenon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article shows a fault in our current food system that&nbsp;has been exposed from the coronavirus. It is important that future changes are made to prevent this from happening&nbsp;during future tragedies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This&nbsp;article from the New York Times explains that many farms are creating an excess amount of food that cannot be distributed to&nbsp;people in need.&nbsp;Due to the fast decline of restaurant&nbsp;usage&nbsp;nation-wide, food demand is looking vastly different.&nbsp; Farmers of Dairy, Poultry, and Veggies are producing more food than they are able to&nbsp;get rid of.&nbsp;Not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}