Why Millions Of Potatoes Are Being Thrown Away During The Pandemic | Big Business
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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
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
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
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 💀
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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).
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
Next RUclips 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.
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.
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.
😔
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
God bless the farmers and ranchers…
They are hard working honorable people…
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 🤓
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
The records will still be there.
*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
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!!!
"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.
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 RUclips videos and internet archives will no longer be available for research by then. Lol
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
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?
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. 😐😐😐😐😐
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
............
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.
Thank you for all the food you are giving us.
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.
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!
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
@@Worldofourown2024 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
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.
I don’t get why they don’t donate them to homeless shelters or give them to hungry people. There are 24 million people starving in Yemen and this food is just getting thrown away. This is so sad.
That is what I was thinking. I can't watch the video till the end because it feels pain...
Transportation cost, storage, processing cost, so many factors...
Can't afford to ship fresh produce half away around the world for nothing.
Maybe their government would sabotage it and say us tried to poison them or try to destroy the crops. We have 190 enemies in countries at least
Cause the supply chain has broken down.
And transporting to another country, processing it, storing it and then delivering it in a safe manner will cost even more.
In the video, it showed farmers needed to make 5 dollars per 100 pounds just to break even.
With these costs, it could more than double.
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.
imagine all those potatoes went to poor people that didn't have food but governments cant even do that
we live in some shit times gotta say
did you even watch the video?
they're already giving away TONS of potatoes in the area
they're already paying money to just throw them away, so it'll cost even more to transport them to someone far away
go start your own business that transports spare food to other places
@@mucdykpu did u even read his comment? the government has the power to transport them, i understand the farmer can’t afford to do that but he never said that
@@massi628 but they wouldn’t because its unnecessary for them to do so due to them not getting a benefit from it. The government is busy trying to fix whats wrong with there country before they fix others.
@@massi628 I would say no they don't. The government is already massively in debt. Plus where would all those trucks and transports come from. They don't just come from thin air. That would be extremely expensive to set up a supply chain, plus the government would have to pay for the potatoes as well. That would only put the government further in debt.
@@massi628
The government (Trumps Adminstration) was just worrying to get Trump more votes. It’s not just potatoes but it’s crapped all over the place in other industries tooz
Infuriating amount of waste, especially in a starving world.
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 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.
@Wischmopps Regulations are like a poison, an antibiotic: to a certain degree you still hurt little and get some intended result; beyond a certain point they strangle the host. Run a company and let me know what you understood of my analogy.
Is throwing away the best solution here? Not so sure.
logistics stop helping others out. this has been a problem with food since the beginning of agriculture
Capitalists: "Smart people see opportunities"
Also capitalists: "But will you pay for it though"
@@Brindale then u pay
Most likely they are throwing away rotten potatoes that they couldn't sell in time.
@@Diana-bp5yg bruh why do you think taxes exist?? so people in general can pay for them, liiberalism literally gives you brain-rot
My Grandma used to say that it's a sin to waste good food.
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
Millions of potatoes rot on the fields while billions are starving.
Best e(0nomi{ system ever created :v, they kill everything to defend it, literally
@@dhruvavikas1632 better than starving
@@nbsmxrtinez6139 nothing here
im tired of seeing my notifications having the same dumb replies
@@dhruvavikas1632 u also won’t get any nutrients if u eat nothing at all
@@dhruvavikas1632 you can boil it, fry, mash, make chips, even to eat raw. Quite variable :)
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
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
Why not just supply to hospitals. Military, hostels, homeless centres. Make into tinned potatoe. Next cycle manufactur less.
@Jon Lebel Then, we have a logistical problem. Mostly financial part of logistics.
Nesper your quite odd dishing out insults. Is the approach working out for you in life?
This is where Government steps in and provides the logistical support.
George Pearson Government can step in and pay for the logistics. Help out struggling American logistics companies and use the potatoe.
It’s surely not beyond the ingenuity of US to find a solution.
@@bobsemple7660 If it was that easy, then airlines would not have been requesting bailouts now.
@Nesper excuses.
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
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..
Wasting food like that feels like a Sin
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
Can't donate them or something
If my mother knew about this everyone would be forced to eat them
They tried. It’s just too many potatoes
@@muhaddesachowdhury1001 I meant to bigger organisations like homeless shelters rather than bags to individuals
So who’s going to pay to transport them all? Then store them all and cook them all?
They gave away as much as ppl would take
Yemenis are starving.
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 😭😭😂💀💀
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
You can hear the upset, hardship, sadness, disappointment and hopelessness in the farmers voices!
☹😕😕😕
“The potatoes are being thrown in this hole” *That hole better be my mouth*
This made me genuinely smile
i have something better for that mouth! * wink wink*
@@monishdey3705 two tacos
@@monishdey3705 💀pls relocate to another planet
Those two replies... You both wanna figure out if it can fit two holes at the same time?
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
The messed up part of it is they could have fed the hunger instead of throwing them away.
Meanwhile in venezuela they dont have potatoes so macdonalds uses yucca for french fries
I heard that story a few years ago. Venezuela still don’t have potatoes??
That sounds good tbh
What's yucca
@@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776 yucca is a root that is white inside and taste kinda similar bland it's good if you put mojito or if you fried it you use garlic sause or green sause
@@diegomontoya4094 I have some family in venezuela and they told me that the french fries are really expensive and that they still use yucca
Millions of starving and homeless people rn in the us alone especially with school programming being cut during the pandemic and yet literal tons of potatoes are being thrown into potato landfill? Extremely sorry for the people in the industry who have been hit by this but this could have been an opportunity to help others and potentially at a cheaper price than it is to bury the potatoes
EDIT: My listening comprehension is not the best so I missed the 75,000 lbs that they donated already. I'm leaving this up since the discussion has been interesting in the replies and clearly many others did not watch or comprehend the full thing as well. Thank you to the farmers for this work, particularly since it looks like they have not only taken time out of their days but also a bit out of their wallets to transport (which many in the comments thinks is a huge problem) and donate these goods. I hope more of the other farms having these issues are doing the same since this does primarily focus on the one. P.S. This was such a small segment in the video. I wish it celebrated it a bit more than a sentence
They are not allowed to just give people the potatoes.
Master Ferguson why
@@acewmd. I think there's a law against feeding the homeless.
Who is liable when you get sick from these potatoes not sold properly? That's fundamentally the problem. Feed a man a fish, and end up in court the next day when he fakes food poisoning.
@@andrewpanin3435 You're telling me that the American government can't buy potatoes that are being thrown away to give to starving American citizens because someone will want to sue them for it? They are the government, they write the laws.
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
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
Everyone is saying "Oh, how could they waste so many potatoes!" you guys have to remember the whole reason this happenned in the first place. No. One. Is. Buying. Them. Why didn't they donate them to food banks? Well I'm sure they delivered as much as they could to all local places, but to deliver them country wide is too much money, money both the food banks and them selves don't have. These potatoes are gonna rot eventually too, I'm sure the only reason they are discarding so many is because all of them are just gonna rot, so there's no point in sending them else where. No, they can't send them to other food insecure countries. Even if the potatoes were free, it would still cost tens of thousands to send them overseas, money those poor countries and the farmers don't have. The farmers already lost like 100,000 dollars, and they already tried to help as many people as they can. Stop saying this is going to cause a famine. Even if one does, by the time it happens all the potatoes that were grown in this video would've rotted. They buried these potatoes because there was no other choice, not because they were stupid.
What about sending them to a farm and feeding animals with them?
@@WPXTacoMan477 They are farmers that plant potatoes FOR farmers to plant. That's literally the first thing they did when they had a surplus.
If somehow they could get money will the problem be solved?
The government should have paid for the distribution of these potatoes across the country.
Yep, it's the cost of shipping. Wait until Fuel gets to $8 per gallon.
Being farmer’s son, I can feel the pain, helplessness, and heartbreak they are going through. Next year will go again and make it better again💪🙏🏻
Dumping of cheap potato products from Europe have surged to New Zealand
, Potatoes New Zealand predicted a surplus of spuds in the European Union after weeks of lockdown would trigger a "tsunami” of frozen chips coming to New Zealand.& putting the NZ farmer out of business.!!!
.NZ is a free trade country. - , But not a Dumping place for European Union's largest budget item. €60 billion a year it pays in subsidies to its farmers.!!!
www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/122108042/tsunami-of-cheap-imported-chips-hits
So riddle me this: politicians raved about food shortages in low income communities and called it "economic racism" but yet advocate for tons of food being thrown away.....
That makes no sense! Should've went out to all those people...
Sorry but throwing away good food is not warranted. You could at least give it away to food banks. It could be dehydrated etc. This is why we are having food shortages now. All by design of the government. Wakey Wakey
Show this to Thanos. World doesn't lack resources, world lacks efficient supply chains.
Well stated bro
indeed
Right.
We've known this for years though
Love it!
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
They aren’t throwing them, they are planting a mega-potato
nice
Lol
Yessss was looking for this comment
Thats what I was thinking. Potatozilla 2022?
You laugh but when Mega Potato takes over and cleanses the earth of all non potato entities Mega Potato will have the last mash.
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 .
Bruh, give me sum, I’ll make “escondidinho” I’ll make French fries, I’ll make mashed potato, I’ll make boiled potatoes, I’ll make homemade chips!!!!!
Go pick it up
Same and give Irish people
Yeahhj i love it too, also you too
ESCONDIDINHO IS LIT
Escondidinho bom pra krl mlk
I am over 50 years old; and I’ve seen some terrible things in my life across the globe. But this is making me nauseous.
then u haven't seen nothing
Adam Ortiz some have worked incredibly hard to put food on the table. U don’t know what ur talking about.
@@Ken_from_Mumbai lol nothing compared to other countries 😂 you clearly don't
Adam Ortiz perspective is relative
@@Ken_from_Mumbai tell that to all the starving misplaced children from war torn countries. All the sex trafficked children this is nothing in comparison
That could be a lot of French fries.
That could be a lot of alcohol.
Clone-232 that could be a lot of skin
That could be a lot of gay
Milf Raider idoot
That could be a lot of papas
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.
Amazing people for give it alway they give it to zoo and homeless shelters God bless them hopefully things change
?
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
Why isn't the government stepping in to pay them a reasonable price to avoid having them thrown away and give them to the poor... Unbelievable
because there's vastly more involved than just buying the potatoes. And the cost of buying them will quickly be over shadowed by transport, storage, packaging, and more.
Proves that the aliens built all intelligent designs on Earth. Humanity ain't among them.
Bruh the the government would lose money it's business try to get the most money
Dude, look further and figure out the costs, consequences, use reasoning and facts rather than just using your imagination of a Utopian world and how YOU think it should work, not by using knowledge of how it actually works.
This actually made me cry. How is food insecurity increasing, with more children going hungry, while they waste all this produce??
Did you watch the whole video?
Simple. They can’t shoulder the price tag to get it to those that need it. Nothing is free
@@phoniakkount1084 yea did you?
@@jessethomas7949 Exactly. It's not the farmers' faults. Just asking a bigger picture question cause people still need to eat
I feel like their should have been a way to give them to food pantry’s or given to government programs / government programs come collect them. It’s ridiculous. This is the food that should receive subsidies so we could use it
We all need to donate to show appreciation to these hard working Americans. Without them, we don’t eat.
Reason they don’t just give it away : they’ll lose money with logistics, even you tell people come and haul away what you can! It’ll be a dent of that potato pile
They are disposing of the potatoes that are left after they have given away as much as people will take.
Food banks and charities should invest in effective social beneficiary activities by learning the basics of business.
They could invest logistics and supply chain contract with producers directly than to buy foods from wholesalers or even worse retailers.
Some good organization could have took all of those tbh. What a waste omg
Thats not capitalism... vote it out of you dont like it
tell them to f off literally this is food produce not stock market liabilities wtf is wrong when tsunami be hitting hard where will you get food ?
Simply disheartening to see food going to waste... it's disappointing there isn't a better solution. Thank you, farmers for your hard work and giving of your products to the community!
The solution is to get rid of dr. fauci and the democrats. Can't wait till November 22. If the dems still carry the house and senate then you gotta know this election was also rigged. Here's and interesting nugget for conservatives. I watched a video on you tube of biden stating the democrats had the most inclusive and extensive VOTER FRAUD ORGANIZATION in the history of american politics and that's how obama was elected. Now I know why every vote in Philadelphia went to obama.
There is a better solution: put the right elected officials in place that won't stand for executive mandates to shut down businesses That takes a well-educated public that is not afraid of getting infected by a disease by someone else. We are each responsible for our economy as well as our health.
Lol they have sold their soul
@VaderxG I don't know where you got the 5%. It's less than one % about the number that die every year from the yearly flu. I'm not surprise you over estimated it. The figures that come out of the CDC are blown up by their own admission. They admitted that they included all the flu victims in the covid fatalities. People die. I don't disrespect them, I just think its nuts to shut down businesses and disrupt teaching children. After the vaccine came out the deaths zoomed up. But the CDC raised the 2020 deaths in one day to match it.
@VaderxG My whole family, wife's whole family, and a lot of coworkers has had it and other strains but it was nothing more than a minor cold and flu. I would even say the flu is worse. Although its been three months and my smell still isn't back, But my question is why didn't we do this with sars, bird flu, ebola, swine flu, super flu, ect? This is what makes me think it' s a power grab to take freedom away.
Potato vodka/gin for all "odd" shaped or surplus potatoes.
Always a demand for alcohol. And a shelf life forever
This was my first thought too, alcohol is never going out of fashion.
Guessing it's down to permits though, pretty sure you can't just smack up a huge distillery whenever you want :D
Now this man is talkin buisness
True lots of poitin or moonshine to be made.
If you remember at the start of the pandemic there was a rush for disinfectant (which is made from alcohol) so...
yup, hand wash as others have said :) Aussie wineries that had been hit by the bushfires actually converted on mass to producing hand wash. To be fair, I doubt hand wash would have made a dent in the quantity of potatoes here, but surely some of them could have been used & home recipes for how to do it shared with those desperate for hand sanitiser too. I'm also sure that if people had been told about the potato problem, they would have been willing to buy more from supermarkets (at discounted prices) so as to clear restaurant quantities via supermarket supply chains. People were experimenting with cooking, I'm sure they would have loved to have gotten their hands onto varieties that were usually only available from their local restaurant & have a go at making restaurant recipes at home
I got into an argument with my mom last year. She was b*ching, and complaining cause I threw out a half of loaf of bread that was going moldy, instead of giving it to her dumb cats. I tried explaining to her, that supermarkets, and restaurants across North America throw out tons of perfectly good food daily, just because of expiry dates. I'm going to show her this video.
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Irish voices suddenly cried out in terror"
I could feel that woman crying and looking at her husband, more power and health to her family.
"There is nothing we can do with these potatoes"?
Potato vodka: AM I A JOKE TO YOU!
I was thinking one step further, once you have alcohol make hand sanitiser?
@@drumid1881 yeah but then you wouldn't be able to drink it.
@@scar3xcr0 there's people who do...lots of people...💔
If it is a Federal crime for humans to eat them which it obviously is.... what about using them as hog feed or turning them into some sort of bio-fuel...it just makes me cringe seeing waste like this...another justified reason for the rest of the world to detest the hypocrisy of corporate America!
@@russellking9762 was literally thinking last night about biofuel/biogas etc.
Don't give up..
Don't sell your farm.
We are praying that GOD will make a way for all of you..
You are wonderful. Don't get discouraged..
We are praying for all of you..
Remember..GOD SAID
"Put on a garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness.."
Do it..
Replace the thoughts that keep coming to you.. that are keeping you from turning this around..
We only have one day at a time..
Victory belong to you.
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