Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don’t eat.
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So great! This guy is awesome. It was beyond time that this stuff got mainstream attention! I always wondered why people rarely talk about the insanity that is food wasted in America.
Can anyone provide a UK mirror?
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2o47t6 let me know if this works
It's the wrong video, it links to the LWT about fashion. Thanks anyway
Sorry I will keep looking.
If you copy the video URL and then upload it to vid.me it should work.
I think this is one of the biggest problems of our era. Foot production and allocation is a major challenge, but there are some serious issues with the current way of doing things, chief among them are environmental concerns and hunger.
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The Trump joke.... i am in tears...
As always a top notch episode. This guy needs his own cable network.
He does indeed. I'd enjoy him as president as well. Wouldn't that be a hoot!
Thanks for the You Tube link. Vids are always very laggy here for me and I have to wait for them to start to punch the YT button.
The new confederate flag bit was good!
We throw away food, there are more than five times as many vacant homes in the U.S. as there are homeless people and we spend $400 billion on a fleet of fighter jets.
Am I the only one who finds this embarrassing?
You're not the only one, and it is thoroughly embarrassing. It's fucking unreal the disconnect in sensibilities we're forced to play along with. Calling it heartbreaking is an understatement. I would be in a constant meltdown if I hadn't adopted a sort of nihilistic attitude towards life in general. Still optimistic somehow though...