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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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I also didn't watch this video here but saw videos earlier where livestock was fed with expired food that supermarkets weren't able to sell in time. All kinds of products like vegetables, bread, cake, yogurt etc. were delivered to the farmers directly or to intermediate companies. In many cases the food was still in its packaging, e.g. a plastic bag around a loaf of bread. But to keep costs low everything just went into a huge shredder and was then fed to the animals. Including lots of micro (and not so micro) plastics.
So the cost cutting is not about "explicitly feeding plastics as a cheap filler" but rather "accepting to have plastics in the food in favor of lower sorting costs".
In the documentary I watched this was described a common practice all over Europe.
Fucking clown world
Thank you. The motivation for them to do this is clear, with this context. Horrible.