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Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't.
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Supermarkets should be able to write off the expenses (transportation, stagging, etc) related to donating soon-to-expire foods to food banks. And not just normal income deductions, but actual direct deductions from taxes. That is, if you spend $1000 loading and shipping expired food to the food bank, you pay $1,000 less in taxes.
Truly incentivize giving food to the poor.
It sounds great on the surface, but you just know there are total assholes out there who would exploit the system with artificially inflated shipping costs to the point where they're hardly paying tax at all. This, as is commonly said, is why we can't have nice things.