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- Potato farmers in Idaho and Montana are destroying millions of potatoes. Restaurant closures because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a glut, and now, billions of pounds of potatoes are stuck in the supply chain. It's caused unprecedented financial losses, food waste, and emotional turmoil for farmers whose livelihood depends on their crops.
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Why Millions Of Potatoes Are Being Thrown Away During The Pandemic | Big Business
Seeing good food going to waste is one of the most horrible things
Amen. Let's weep together.
Yes
Can’t they not keep them and grow them back
@@leomozart33 because they are already growing next season's batch
of all the food, it’s the potatoes, it makes me want to cry
You mean to tell me there'a a hole full of millions of potatoes?
We must find this vast treasure.
Thos potato's will grow.
there dinosaur bones burried in Montana so the Dinosaur bones will eat the potatoes.
Unlimited fries
Next time this happen sir, called UN. They'll send these to part of the world best potato eater.. Belgium & Lithuania 😆🤣😁
We need to make a megapotato plant
I've been poor and food insecure. What kept me going for food was a bag of potatoes, beans, rice, and ramen.
Potatoes are versatile. I could make chips, fries, au gratin, mashed, boiled, hashed, and smothered potatoes. I made so many different beans and rice dishes. Really got creative with ramen. (Funny how these ramen shops cost $8 a bowl when I could make it for far less)
I survived during the lean times. Doing much better now 😊
You should start a potato based restaurant/catering business.
So sad. All that hard work. My heart goes out to these farmers.
@craig loves Azerbaijan nobody sees that part of the business
Come on give to people who need food buddy
@craig loves Azerbaijan No, I don't feel sad for the big chain markets who rip off farmers. Why would i feel sad for scumbags?
@@agoogleuser5398 until the stock market crashes, or politicians practice insider trading
@@agoogleuser5398 well, it’s thier passion to farm. They don’t wanna go into the stock market. It’s none of your business.
Instead of bailing out airlines, can't the government distribute these potatoes to poor hungry people and help these farmers?
They can, but they won't. Because they want us dead.
@@mylove-iq3bk they would go broke from the amount it costs to ship/transport them
@@mylove-iq3bk exactly,we are just like those dump trucks dumping potatoes,they'd rather that be human bodies instead of a vegetable,there's very little intelligent life on this planet,for real,money has a very strong hold on the idiots of the world,for now
Don’t expect nothing from those who enslaved us
They want us dead 💀
Shows how crippled our supply chains are. The world is starving in many places and thousands of tones of food are thrown away because there's no order.
It is not about crippled supply chains, Currently, food is in high demand, I pay way more money for my potatoes than in previous years. US processed food and agriculture products are quite thought-after in international trade too. It's the corporations purposely cutting off supply to raise the price, just like what they did in the great depression.
@@brianhart4108 I was only pointing out a major issue. What you said is true too. Actually watch Thanos' assistant in college humour. It has the right explanation.
Ikr imagine how much poor people would eat 700 tons potato, and me
I mean they do have to make money some how they ain’t just gonna give it anyway for free
@@Gonzalez956 Supply Chain is affected by Corporate Greed, Political conditions, local hoaxes etc. Here in India farmers suicide when Tomato became valueless. Is it because every Indian had access to Tomato? No. It's the inbetween people.
God bless the farmers and ranchers…
They are hard working honorable people…
So sad to throw away good food. I remember years ago the U.S. government bought the potatoes and shipped them out in the ocean where they were dumped, such a waste.
It is sinful to through away good food when so many in our world are still starving to death. The farmer cannot afford to ship them around the world, but our government could and just think of all the good we would be doing. We could help the people of the world instead of being enemies. Biden says build back better, we could really build some good relations with other countries by helping them when they are in need. Plus this would help the potato farmers if the U.S. government would buy the potatoes from them, even at a reduced price, it would be better than losing, plus save the cost of disposing of them.
It'd be far less than a quarter of the the billions dedicated to R&D for weapons of mass and precise destruction or Meddling in the politics of others for more influence and their resource or vain power flexing.
It’s almost like both parties are right wing capitalists who only care about making themselves money and hate the working class. Oh wait, that’s exactly how it is.
And yet "somehow" I'm Still paying 5 bucks for a 10lb bag.......
Exactly
Or 50 buck on fuel and drive there they will give you 10ib bag for free.
Price manipulating by big ag, they're controlled by the agreements with the government department of agriculture and the banks, who craft price, supply and demand. If you want to run a big farm your strong armed into compliance or no funding or aid. This is very bad. It's also important to support your local small growers, gardeners etc selling produce and hand crafted stuff, the more of these we have, decentralized, the less we depend on big controlled gov subsidized farms that use all kinds of chemicals and gmo seed.
The less food the higher the price
Gotta make sure the rich keep getting richer (looking at you, Walmarts that were allowed to remain open while all the small restaurants got fucked).
Just watched a news report on Yemeni children dying of starvation, then this gets recommended.
World is crazy since some time already. Humans are not humans anymore this will end with a war at some point.
LeD nah, it won’t reach that point
@@kobe24OBCity it most definitely will. And very soon. You need to start thinking about your eternal soul. The real you.
Jesus is the only way.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4 (KJV)
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
GT Abraham Amen 🙏🏿
yemen has the same problem as this farmer. they both need to grow less.
Thank you for all the food you are giving us.
Me & my mom were disheartened midway into the first year of Covid. We hated to see all of our potato, agriculturers & milk producers had to dispose all of it made me angry. That they’re not allowed to advertise to give away tons of potatoes besides the local. There’s still so many hungry & nearly starving families, all of that could’ve went to them. Especially the milk being dumped.
They tried here in Idaho but no one came. We got lucky and none of our crops got dumped.
Imagine the irony of spending money to destroy your crop.
Paying for gas so those heavy machineries gets moving. also they're counting the potatoes worth that they could not sell into that cost. Its like using money(gas) to dump money(potatoes) into pits. They probably also need permits to dig deep pits too.
😔
You had your chance to make the world's largest mashed potato bowl.
And now a potato shortage in japan imagine that.
And missed it 😟
It's seeds not whole potatoes. They taste extremely starchy
Doesn't mean you can't make the worlds largest bowl
Could of made mcdonald's fries free
Noo Make Vodka with these potatoes
We seem to have a massive gap between mass market food waste...to the millions who are going hungry. Recycling food has become top priority nationwide. The pandemic showed us just how much food is wasted...even without the unprecedented downtime. I wish them all the best next year. Every farmer wants their food to feed the masses.
God bless all the farmers out there! It never dawned on me the process that you all have been going through the last couple of years. If you go to sleep tonight and are not hungry, thank a farmer!!!
they should’ve put a sign saying
“free potatoes”
but no one then gonna bye the undumbed potatoe
@@ayoubbelatrous8080 agreft eye
They want to control the market price for potatoes i guess
Capitalism
@@csauzier As has been stated else where, all those ideas take licences and equipment that cost more money than they are worth in the short term.
Next CZcams video title: Hunger is a major problem in the US.
I mean it's not that simple, but yeah
It has been an issue. Food distribution has never been efficient. This is just another problem covid is exposing
Oarqvs Rodte I’m pretty sure food distribution has become more efficient otherwise there wouldn’t be so many people on earth.
the key it has gotten more efficient yes
@@thekey1175 you just watched a video where farmers are throwing away tons of potatoes.
Bless the farmers. Too often it's a very hard and thankless job, but without farmers, we're all in a world of hurt. May farmers see better and more prosperous days ahead.
I’m so sorry for their loss! It’s so sad that all those potatoes are going to waste with so many hungry people in the world. It’s awesome that they did give some of them away. I pray that they will have a better year next year.
Give me those f***ing potatoes. I’ll fry, bake, mash, boil, roast, and I’ll even put them in soup; I know it’s summer but I don’t give a f***
Same I love potatoes its my favorite veggie
they get rip of them or the price would go down... they can not gave it away for free as well... just a risk of that businss..
I would also like to get a shipment of those spuds so that i can eat steamed potatoes for snack
is a french fry a veggie
Boil em mash em stick em in a soup
In Belgium the government announced “eat chips for the country!” And it worked.
Please explain eating chips saved the potato 🥔?
@@sbryant1993sb I'm also from Belgium and what's happening is, we had too much potatoes. So they proposed eating more chips and fries to minimize the loss of potatoes that have to be thrown away when not eating
@@sujithvarma1452 No-one claimed eating chips saved the potato, though.
@יהוחנן לואיס o.k.boomer
@יהוחנן לואיס Ok boomer
Wasting food like that feels like a Sin
When others are literally starving to death in other countries and someone throws perfect potatoes away... WHAT IS LIFE???
well what they gonna do spend millions to send temporary food to africa or spend thousands to throw it away?
*a year later* why are there millions of spudding potatoes disrupting the soil in montana
OOF
How deep does the soil freez in Montana? It gets a bit colder there than Peru.
@Opamigaaa crazy guy with crazy hair: OU MAI GAAAAAWD IT'S ALL A KANSOIRACY!!
www.ellenwhite.info/books/ellen-g-white-book-great-controversy-gc-contents.htm A must to read book, worth your time
Oh god
It's really sad to see this happen when millions of people are starving in this world.
Too bad, it’s nature.
@@bobbyweirddick6556 i dont think the potatoes would survive the time to get ready and sent to regions in turmoil
True
I think you’re all missing his point
@@kevinquijad464 Yes, the potatoes can't be delivered.
Great farming folk. I wish them well!
My Grandma used to say that it's a sin to waste good food.
someones gonna plant something here in 30 years and it's gonna grow 20 feet in the first day because of all the nutrients
Edit: my most liked comment is about potatoes
Arman Peirce yea thats mr.beast
No ones planting nothing in 30 years... who wants to deal with shit like this
Plants would probably just burn from nutrient toxicity tbf
@@Mr_Makina wait, is that a thing? Like, cant over abundance of nutrients kill plants?
@@ducks7015 yeah, the only reason I that is because I grow hemp (medically, I know some people will cringe, but a plants a plant and im getting further into other plants, cannabis growing was a gatewayto growing for me) but yes also certain stages require different types of nutrients at different ratios for different plants.
Here's my knowledge from cannabis
In the seedling stage, which is 1-5 weeks, you generally don't give any nutrients, when the cotyledons die, thats when you start to introduce a high nitrogen feed. When you introduce flower your plant still requires nitrogen, alot less because the plant mainly uses P&K ( phosphorus and potassium). If you use too much, you'll get crispy leafs, even dark green, plastic, highly fake looking when you give too much nitrogen. You get deficiencies as well, phosphorus creates red dots on the leafs for an example. Calcium deficiency is nasty if left for a long while... stems get hollow, can't support buds, their leafs go brown,yellow, spotty... overall stressing the plant to a high degree.
There is also other nutrients like zinc, calcium, magnesium and a whole other range... these are just as important to all plants. im only sharing the side i know but most plants roughly all work the same.
Y'all saying "why don't they send them around the world?" THEY DON'T HAVE THE SUPPLY LINE OR THE MONEY TO DO THAT, EVEN IF THEY WANTED TO.
Yeah, they dont send to around the world because distribution is Fking EXPENSIVE. If it send when it arrive it will be rotten.
And the reason they don't give free to people because they will Sell it again. "Why not make bucks from free potatoes I just got?".
And that's why China's road and belt project is necessary
@@dixiemosley7593 not everyone will gonna sell it. There are many starving people out there. It is better to give than to waste.
Kevin Michael dude use your brain.
50% of the US market for Potatoes is gone. There aren’t 50% of American homeless or poverty. You’re talking maybe 10%-15%.
I’m sure they gave 10% away. But there’s simply too much to give away.
This once again goes to show that there isn't too little food or too many people on earth, we're just wasting a shit ton of it and the distribution of food is utterly uneven.
this is so disheartening to watch. my family has a veggie garden just for our consumption, and it was sad enough to lose 3 small strawberry seedbeds to heavy rains. i can't imagine something this massive. it's not a regular business, food is such a sensitive and essential thing. i applaud their hard work and efforts to not let it go to waste
In 1000 years, archeologists are going to be confused when they discover that we buried 1.4 Million pounds of potatoes
I know right! They will also discover half of the world was starving at the time it happened.
They will be eaten by worms and just turn into soil
It’ll be explained as a sacrifice to the potato gods lol
They'll dug it up as manure next year
@@Daniel-qi4yj
The records will still be there.
This is a crime against humanity.
You can thank the radical left and company for this.
Full blame on the left and weak politicians.
15:25 they give it out for free but so much left in the storage, what should they do? Are you willing to pay for the transportation to the needed people?
Soooo sad 😥
@@thatsawesome2060 , but you are willing to spend much more money building bombers to bomb starving people far away from your shores. Insane when you are willing to transport the bombs all around the world. You need to see the bigger, connected picture.
Infuriating amount of waste, especially in a starving world.
I have to applaud the creative efforts of these farmers to save at least part of their tater crop by donating and reusing them! 👏👏👏
The face of ppl working hard to feed us. Thanks Peggy & Bill, and all dedicated farmers out there. Your sacrifice won't soon be forgotten.
If only this were true
Not the hard working part, these people are the salt of the earth, but God knows they're going to be forgotten
They’re working hard to earn their own living, not to feed us but that doesn’t mean I don appreciate them
bruh i'm starving, give me those
lol they don't work; they pay migrants. then they pose for camera lol. you don't know big ag. they deserve this!
@TheRottMachine what u talking about, troll.
There's people starving in the us, but there are also millions of potatoes thrown into a hole!
I was just thinking about this,
I know it's so dumb. It's idiotic that logistics is causing the dumping of tons of edible foods
@@montgomerymauro2199 you need to study to get it, this is normal and correct
@@VagoHarp dumping tons of food is correct when there are starving people in this country? While the federal government bails out non-essential businesses? This is not correct but I'm glad you believe the propaganda.
True. But it’s not the farmers fault. Organizations should work together to fund shipping these potatoes to the poor, we cannot expect the farm to pay it out of hand.
The farmers lost money on the potatoes and now I see potatoes in the grocery store with a price increase of about 30%. They have made the most basic of needs, food; into something too costly to produce and too costly to buy.
Zak loved seeing in this video, have not seen you since Canada. Hope farmers can get the funding to keep business going. Crazy times man.
Damn, that was heartbreaking to watch. If anybody would need a bailout, it would be farmers. Not politicians friends.
I'd buy a 50# bag of potatoes no problem...no one thought to openly sell them? oh pass the lightbulb
Certainly not Pakistani gender studies.
@Victor Roberts Some money is better than no money. Don't be an idiot.
Haha you're so wrong. Shareholders and CEOs need the most bailout, not the farmers or hard working people. Wake up already.
@Victor Roberts don't mind me, I'm just angry at everything that's happening and how everything favours the rich.
"and in the eyes of the people there is a failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy"
Liam Keech John Steinbeck. 😐😐😐
- Adolf hitler
The sky is falling, said the cowards.
Yes we feel for you farmers. This world has changed since the year of 2019 and it's not getting better all over the world.
I wish I could buy all those potatoes. Thank you for your creativity.
Those potatoes are going to start growing in that hole.
🤣🤣
Well, maybe the upper layer.
Not if u bury it deep enough. Shoots can't grow over 2ft of top soil
Unlikely, but life finds a way.
SuperPlayz Depends how deep they are buried. With a five foot layer on top they will start rooting, but not make it to the top. 😐😐😐😐😐
10 years later, “Why thousands of potato’s were thrown into a hole during the Covid Pandemic.”
You can distill alcohol from potatoes and make hand sanitizer... just saying.
One divbypi how :o
Need a distillers licence before building the still in some places. Alabama or the next one over is a Dry State. You can probably buy a still there.
What if the pandemic is still alive after 10 years?
probably millions
I like to think they will all form into a super organism the likes of which no man can imagine nor comprehend
No words to express how heart breaking this is for THE WORLD💔🙏🏼💯
I sure don’t see the price of potatoes going down in the supermarkets.
People only buy so many potatoes, they don’t buy more if they are cheaper so they will never drop the price. It’s the shippers not the store setting the prices.
@@colinbrennan9962 people do buy more food if it's cheaper though, my mom brought 10 bottles of shampoo just cuz she had a coupon
@@greyc.4728 potatoes don’t last as long as shampoo
@@WraithLK good point
@@greyc.4728 Also most people don't have potatos every meal
call mr beast to make the world's largest mashed potatoes or french fries
he's a lier.
Zain wat
Zain how
@@Zainphotography yeah youre right, his name is not actually Beast. Smh my head.
smart! These old timers just don't understand social media. Lets showem!
Wow, the love for their work. I hope the recover nicely.
This is just the beginning of what we're all going to go through very sad
Wait I think there's a better way.Why not send those to the medical alcohol factorys?As far as I know,they're facing a serious ferment shortage.
There's also a food shortage for many people struggling....wish they'd atleast give these things out and do more useful things with them instead of throwing them out.
@@idek5 someone still has to pay for the transportation unfortunately.
Basha Pretsch The companies that faces the shortage may try their best to figure it out.Right?
@@raptordon7696 lol.. if only it worked like that in the real world
Did you idiots even watch the video? The complex supply chain cannot be changed overnight!
Farmers are always the most hardworking people on the planet. God bless them and provide for them in these difficult times.
Thank you sir, I'm a farmer
What do you mean difficult times
@@camrynclark4007 Y’know, Global Pandemic
Farmers were good hundreds or thousands of years ago. Today, intensive agriculture is depleting the planet and destroying our environment. All to feed a senseless, wasteful population...
@@Convolutedtubules Then grow your own food if you don’t like it
So sad, hope you guys have alright with that..very hard to bear that kind of food loss..i appreciate for your effort
The messed up part of it is they could have fed the hunger instead of throwing them away.
Where are the liquor makers who could use all the grains and potato’s?
oh you just want everyone to just get drunk huh
Space Catboy you rather see farmers lose money or waste produce like this?
Really. We could sell them to Eastern European countries and Russia for vodka and then Asian countries like Korea make Soju. Maybe Russia already produces a ton of potatoes which becomes booze in China and Korea? I was wondering why we came up so short on hand sanitizer the past several months when basic alcohol will do.
@@TUBESPECIFIC1 Top my mind, Norwegian national liquor Akvavit is made from potato. It would be good to set up a small scale of liquor manufacturing facility near the potato farms as back up.
@@spacecatboy2962 disinfectant is made out of alcohol, I hope you know that
How to stop it:
1. Call a Russian
2. Ask him to set up a *vodka* distillery
Well.. ok 8)))
I’m there guy then
they take tanks to foreign products that come into the country so i dont think russia is the best country to call
Ali Ahmad well he said call a Russian, not ask Russia in general. So it could be a Russian that moved to the U.S.
@@dangerousvidsr220 yeah man, it's all in the details 🤓
Over here in the Netherlands the used the excess potatoes to make the main ingredient for handsanitizers.. worked out pretty well for them
Sad....prayers and love to you FARMERS....everywhere.
If only they could send them to Yemen and countries that really need food supplies rather than burying potatoes in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah that sounds economically feasible.
Sadly it's impossible :(
Adding an extra cost to their lost, make sense !
they don't want to send food to Yemen,because Yemenis are against Saudi, who is backed by U.S,and hunger is their weapon of their choice
ahoorakia the food would go to the kids, who are innocent in all this.
What a great set of people giving away the product they can't sell. They know they will not make a dime off them but still want to help their community.
That is such a precious spirit that is so rare in the world today
Absolutely, hearts of gold! I really feel for them. I wish more could have been done to help them.
The kind of potatoes they throw away are only able to make french fries of, 80% of french fries get consumet in restaurants and fast food, they taste terrible if you just cook them. We have the same problem here in Germany.
@@jonasstahl9826 Awe, that's awful! It's hard for everyone, the restaurant owners, the servers/wait staff. It affects the whole cycle. It's terrible. I just pray this gets better soon, for everyone!!!
*Give them away close to home. Why not to the whole country??*
*THAT WAS IN NEED!!!!*
I just love farmers!
It's heartbreaking to see it those potatoes goes to waste 😢
The amount of food that US wastes, every year is disgusting
I know right if I had that many potato o be making French frise
Ukdz57 DTMWC they literally did in the video
Bro your country is apparently to poor to buy food tho
@@yassinazarkan4207 My country belongs to Top 5 GDP's in the World. My country, is the largest exporter of Rice in the world. Even in country, 20% of the food produced is wasted. But it's no where close to the US in food wastage. To which 3rd world country you belong to, btw?
@@yassinazarkan4207 butthurt.
This is such a first-world problem, it's almost irritating. To see food wasted like this when there are millions dying of starvation is maddening.
It's a logistics problem. Moving lots of things costs money. The farmers can't give it away for free because then they'd go bankrupt from the shipping costs. Imagine what you pay to send a package via ups and then times that by a bazillion, which is what they'd have to pay out of pocket to give it away. That being said yes this is a very serious first-world problem that requires ingenious first-world solutions.
And also, farms are usually located close to one another. If one farm has a major surplus, the other farms in the area will have the same issues. And even though you try to give away as much as possible without shipping it elsewhere, the entire area will be saturated with potatoes
people would walk or drive anywhere if they are starving so the farmers could just set up a place
Ezzie em again that costs the farmers money and time they don’t have. Plus not everyone has a car to drive around, again it’s a pandemic some people are broke.
Meanwhile CV patients are like Big Foot. No where to be found.
It's not just potatoes. This is all fruit and vegetables. I did a seminar for a strawberry picking farm, and they said if they are not this size, anything bigger than this size or not perfect, it goes straight to waste. Imagine all those imperfect fruit and vegetables being used, everyone in the world will have meals
God bless the Farmers.2/14/2022 . 9:52 PM from Michigan USA.
Potatoes are incredibly valuable for us, even if their price is low. They deliver important nutrients, satiate and are internationally accepted as a staple food. And you can make alcoholic drinks, desinfectant, bio fuel, plastic and so many other things from it
For farmers to waste them like this is an absolute travesty and frankly, it breaks my heart to see this, when so many people would give an arm and a leg for a few potatoes to feed themself and their loved ones
Wow even plastic I had no idea really wish they would do away with the terrible things they use to make plastics now
Yeah peloso remember that potato chips while they used to keep a slave Society not will nurture Handlock of minerals in amino acid
@Alexander Everhart Your comment is complete BS. Stop throwing ignorant, republican shade! The reason there is no manufacturing in the US is because CORPORATIONS run by greedy capitalist Republicans chose to make larger profits by exploiting cheap labor and resources in other countries. Nice try though!
Ugh, they could have donated them to animal shelters/sanctuaries and homeless children -- throwing away food is beyond kreeminaI...
They could have just made alcohol (vodka) from them instead of throwing them away...
Archaeologists in 3017: this “potato grave” is believed to be a peace offering to the gods. Due to the events of 2020, it is theorized that the people had had enough and wanted this to be over, so they sacrificed all their potato’s to the potato gods
LMAO
This is so uderrated lmao
😄
Surprisingly true
I guess CZcams videos and internet archives will no longer be available for research by then. Lol
I wish you all the best of times to come.
I love potatoes. I have it with most every meal. Baked. Mashed. Scalloped. Hash browns. Yum Yum.
It's so sad to see all this food watsed
Yeah it sure is it's because of damn Bill Gates and this fake coco 19 crap
@@mitchtheh4x0r holy fck 😂😂
Especially when people are starving.
Better been donated
Kxng RB better get some people and roll up in your trucks and help deliver some potatoes. Most people are just talk or try and pass the buck so good on you for doing something other then complain
Where is this hole? I just want to um... check it out.
Lmao same
Asking for a friend
Isaac Zueger stfu
@@Jessica-ou2it lmao triggered
@@IsaacZGR 😭😭😂💀💀
I hope this doesn't end up permanently breaking the farms
Throwing food away makes no sense… our own people can’t afford 8 lbs of potatoes but our government can send 100’s of billion dollars to another country .
I hate seeing food wasted when so many in this world go hungry each day. 😢
It's capitalism in fall display. Our 'government" should have help support and distribute these potatos to people whom are going hungry. Schools, shelters and shipped duty free to starving nations during these times.
I think the point that should be taken from this video is that it all costs money. Shipping potatoes across the country, to another country, to another continent is extremely expensive. It's cost these farmers a lot just to put them in a hole. It's far more efficient to use capital to enable local businesses in developing countries and fund local support services.
@@chris-hayes You hit the nail on the head. Capitalism creates a mass grave for the masses.
@@MrTwenty20video Which they are minuscule compared to the central planning ones.
@@MarcoDM1571 the alternative mustn't be planned economy. But the unregulated market doesn't work and every step for more regulation gets shut down by media and politicans controlled by billionaires who doesn't want regulation for big business
in the Netherlands we have the same problem but we use a % of the potato's that would else be wasted to make alcohol for the disinfectant/cleaning.
Couse netherlands is ahead of our time :D grreetings from Germany 😊
@@tamiyo1999 They've normalized drug-usage though. Pretty appalling and a regressive policy. Slowly but surely creating a drug-addict state.
Smarter than this country. Better.
@@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 That isn't even close to the truth
And then our country is only thinking about money and not going to great lengths to share it. Yes, they handed out bags locally but imagine if we worked together to spread them across the nation. Everyone would be well fed and drunk from making vodka lol
Just a question, can't they dehydrate and sell it as potato flour or powdered mashed potatoes?
We all need to donate to show appreciation to these hard working Americans. Without them, we don’t eat.
Why isn't this being turned into alcohol? I haven't been able to get a bottle of rubbing alcohol since February. This is a huge waste.
What do you mean haven’t been able to get? I’m standing in a target and it’s $1.99 for 32 ounces. No shortage on Amazon either
Also I didn’t know you could make rubbing alcohol with potatoes
@@mudpuppy8740 you can make alcohol from any starch basically
@@auliasilkapianis1482: fascinating
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It's being used if you watch till the end
@@andrewb5894 A pittance is being used. The majority is going into the ground as waste.
You can hear the upset, hardship, sadness, disappointment and hopelessness in the farmers voices!
☹😕😕😕
And now in 2022, they’re talking about a worldwide potato shortage.
God bless you prayers for better times
Imagine in like 100 years someone starts to dig a hole and finds 1000 tons of potatoes.
It would have become fertilizer. And decomposed fully into shit.
They won't, all the potatoes just going to decompost and it may going to be a very fertile land
Take a science class bro that’s not how it works
Dude. It’s a joke. Calm down.
These are real potatoes not plastic potatoes
Irishmen all around the world shed many tears at this atrocity. 😢
Do you actually understand how the famine came about? Or what it meant to the irish at that time? >,< *pushes you into potatoe pit*
@@SeeTheWholeTruth bro it's a joke and your trying to RP in a comment lol
@@SeeTheWholeTruth Knowing that the famine was caused mainly in part to potatoes being their staple food and their supply being diseased makes your comment even more stupid
Sorry to see the losses of such high scale😔 this pandemic is preparing us to live our lives differently. Going forward farmers may have to strategise their excess/waste crops differently either for long term storage and have facilities to convert them in mash potatoes or hash browns which can be stored in freezers or alternative uses such as potato starches.
Life is nothing without Potato 🥔🍠
that's really unfortunate .. i can eat potatoes all day instead of rice and bread ..
I think potatoes are more nutritionally complete too. More than rice and flour.
@@Zyscheriah depends on how you cook either one...
AnonyGuy it’s basically a carbohydrate
With skin on they are pretty nutritious compared to rice. Not so much without skin.
@@SSchithFoo Yeah but by that metric, brown rice is more 'nutritionally complete' than both. I mean you can think it has more nutrients, but you can also think the Earth is flat. It's just full of carbs like every other staple
This is why I call bullshit on food shortage claim's
if was never a shortage it was always supply lines
ok
BIG BULLSHIT...
The reasons people go hungry around the world is not from a lack of food but from people purposely keeping people hungry for political gains.
I didn't know anyone was claiming there is a food shortage.
God bless the hardest working humans on the planet. Good luck next year. ❤️
Along time ago a seed potato grower in 1960 said . Potatoes go on a 7 year cycle 6 ok years and 1 super great year 🇺🇸🏆
They could have made alcohol to drink or bio fuel
Yes. What a deplorable waste.
You're paying??
@@famousbowl9926 id pay for booze yes
Yes I was thinking the same thing as well as turning them into dehydrated mash and diced potato the uses of potato are endless ,ask someone whose parents survived ww2 in Europe and they will give you 101 uses for potato ,if it was in my power I would contact as many charity organisations and say come here and bring a big truck we have as many potatoes as you can carry for free..
Teddy pastie !.. ummm..
That amount of potatoes could make millions of liters of ethanol used for fuel.
Government inefficiency. I guarantee a private company would make a mountain out there of this waste.
@@thefives7ar You have zero clue what you are talking about and it is obvious you didn't even watch the video before commenting. This waste is specifically BECAUSE of private enterprise. Ineffiencent/inflexible supply lines alongside of lack of profitability. Instead of distributing the food it was more profitable to simply throw it away.
Half the food grown doesn't even hit shelves because they throw out all food that "looks weird" because it won't sell well even though it is perfectly fine. Or stores that throw out tons of food every day that are 1 day past the Best By date even though it is still perfectly good and legal to sell.
This idea that Capitalism is magically efficient is a lie.
Ethanol biofuel is actually a really bad use for food stuffs, corn is by far the better for overall efficiency between ingredients and final product but if you took all the corn that makes up enough fuel for just 2 avg car fuel tanks, you could feed a person for a whole year, the biofuel myth does not work and is more harmful in the long run for the earth, when you take into how far it is transported how far the resources to produce it have to travel, the land that is cleared of natural woodland/forest in favour of open fields that let the top soil get distributed meaning more fertiliser is needed too, the lack of trees in an area can also radically affect the rain fall over the year meaning more resources spent transporting water, most biofuels are pretty bad when you look at the whole journey from seed to fuel tank
Ethonal is bad and worse for the environment
@@LaFonteCheVi the have been forced to close by government mandate, so to throw away everything,
And if you don’t know, agriculture is the most subsidized sector of the whole economy, why do you think they produced so much potatoes if the demand was much lower? Only because of subsidies.
they first encouraged them to produce so much by artificially manipulating the prices of all crops, then forced them to close down and throw away everything, so this is almost entirely a government fault.
to alleviate the problem created by them, they could have bought all the leftover potatoes like they did for the cheese, but they didn't.
This wouldn’t have happened in a freer market with less regulations and no interventions by the government.
i don't feel bad for a single farmer. You complain but your heart tells you to throw the food away instead of giving it out. You literally reap what you sow. Literally
Thrown away??? This is outrageous!! Potatoes are valuable! Groan!!
As a potato lover, seeing this really breaks my heart.
@@ahmednisar2359 they like to eat stuff made of potatoes
@@ahmednisar2359 I mean it’s the simple answer lol
@@ahmednisar2359 come on figure it out
@@ahmednisar2359 An Irishman or Latvian
Amazing people for give it alway they give it to zoo and homeless shelters God bless them hopefully things change
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Easier said than done. If you poisoned homeless people, you gonna end up in jail.
Sometimes being helpful has its limits. Food businesses can't just hand the leftovers or the unsold to poor people because it might make them sick. The best sustainable is to convert them to fertilizers or process them into fish/poultry/livestock food.
Vexcarius you stupid
@@vexcarius7100 You're assuming consumers are foolish enough that they can't pick the good potatoes for consumption. There's always a percentage that one or some of the potatoes in a single batch aren't good anymore for consumption so you can't rule out that all potatoes that are sold/given away have to be in good condition for consumption. No, nobody will go to jail if they donate potatoes, consumers have every right and freedom to discard them if they think they're not good enough anymore to eat. There's nothing wrong if the farmers want to give raw ingredients to people for free. It's best to do good for humanity especially when they need it the most instead of ignoring them due to fallacious fear.
I had a stroke trying to read. Can someone please make me understand
Such actions, does not matter who initiated them, must be qualified as crime against humanity and prosecuted accordingly. So many people are experiencing shortage of food around the globe and these &#$%@* are throwing food to waste.
This makes me sad, if only they had the money to ship food to places where literally everyone is starving.