See why potato farmers are destroying millions of potatoes

This could be true....no one is starving out there, there is no shortage of potatoes reported, so....

They should fill up heavy duty gaylord boxes ship them to stores and give them away if there is surplus. Surely there's room for a couple pallets on multiple semi trucks every load isn't a full load. Distribute them all over the country.

I suppose it would’ve been just wrong to give these away free to poor people, rather than destroy them?

Grow up.

It is potatoes. It is a starch that easily turns into fat. It does not have a lot of nutrition in it. It is OK that we don't eat so many of them during this time. I just feel bad for the farmers.

Covid was a Biological WEAPON. Designed to KILL.

Supply Chain

Moving a product costs money.

Do your homework.

They are going the right direction with feeding livestock...My ex-in-laws made good money growing feed corn...people are too picky, animals will eat anything...

They did give them away free, by the bag full, box full and pickup truck load. It cost them a lot of money just so they could do that. It cost a lot of money just to bury them too.

Do you think the people and machines that move those potatoes run on magic?

:magic:

What about bio-diesel/fuel??

Potatoes are full of potassium!

I don't believe food can be wasted, only the time, energy, and money put into obtaining it...that's all that has been wasted, time and fuel...

"This" ...
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that's right. this is a Plague that is totally
bringing Civilization to it's knees.
(that's what Plagues do.)

Covid Government killed the economy. Fixed it for ya.

Let's be clear: The federal government didn't shut down anything. Only democrat-run states shut down.

what a shame, 55% go to restaurants that were shuttered, a lot of restaurants will go bankrupt so that revenue will need to be replaced somewhere??

So many ways to cook potatoes and very filling, no one should be hungry in this country!! I have seen struggling people buy a couple of frozen pizzas when they could have bought 20#'s of potatoes to help feed their family, makes no sense but with so many that rely on Schools to feed their kids two meals a day it's not a wonder. (dumbed down society)

I planted red, white and Russets this year, we had new potatoes for supper last night along with fresh green beans and Squash from the garden also leaf lettuce and cucumbers, I have tomatoes but none are ripe yet, I like my meat but when the garden is producing like it is now we will just eat vegetables a couple of times a week, today I will be cutting Broccoli so we will add that to the menu. My wife works with a single lady who is raising her Grandkids due to her kids being Addicts, we send a lot of garden Vegetables to her along with fresh eggs and meat when we butcher in the fall, she is very appreciative unlike some that complained because I didn't wash the FREE eggs lol lol no more eggs for the bitchers, their loss!

sorry for the ramble, eat healthy as you can and stay safe!

Interestingly, a potassium-rich diet is linked to many powerful health benefits. It may help reduce blood pressure and water retention, protect against stroke and help prevent osteoporosis and kidney stones.

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My relatives have always been big potato eaters. Most eat potatoes in some form daily (baked, potato salad, french fries, mashed potatoes and gravy, fried, hash browns, etc.).

I don't recall any of them having blood pressure problems, stroke, or kidney stones. Just good genes? Maybe. Diet may have had a lot to do with it as well.

Potatoes are good nutrition. In the Irish potato famine around 1840, people starved because there were not enough potatoes. Before that, they were surviving on potatoes.

Somebody is going to wish they saved those potatoes when the famine hits.
We here on GLP know better. i grew my own this year.

Eat the whole potato, don't peel it...

Yes.

Also add cabbage or kale to make 'Colcannon' - dont eat it plain.

They are doing essentially the same thing with livestock and milk.

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There's a couple of links but there's a lot more out there, dumping eggs, all sorts of vegetables, everything.

It's going to be a long winter I think.

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Do you realize how much ethanol they just wasted.

Good points. At the very least, there are people who are short on money, and food banks short on food. A little philanthropy would go a long way.

Grocery stores were short on potatoes too. Big chains would have bought them up.

But it so much easier to throw a frickin' tantrum, and disregard the cost of growing those potatoes.

I recommend people watch Black '47. The Irish potato famine largely because they overfocused on the potato crop, then had crop failures and pests and people went terribly hungry.

It is an excellent history film. The acting is very moving and espexially if that your heritage, your kids need to know what their ancestors faced.

Some Christians were mean and would offer soup to people who were starving, only if they attended a church meeting. It was called "taking the soup". Other Christians, invariaby devout English, just fed people and asked people to attend.

The cruelest misery was since the Irish were divested of the land and tenant farmers, since the crops failed, they couldn't pay the rent. They would be evicted, then return, and British soldiers, sometimes even Irish who were in the English army, then had to tear off roofs and people froze to death.

That ended up causing terrible religious unrest as some English landlords treated the Irish as less than human. When in fact, they all could have been saved. Problems to this very day.

Ultimately people who could, fled to America and we largely benefitted from many groups including Scotch-Irish from the Ulster region.

Smart Irish would trap, hunt, fish, and gather wild edibles even from sea like periwinkles and seaweeds and so barely make it.

Learn and be like them, because it could happen here. You want to pull out every trick you know so you'd family can eat at least a little something.

They want starvation, bread lines, poverty.