Children's Health Defense By Jessica Scott-Reid
American consumers are expected to spend over $13 billion on chocolate and other types of candy for Halloween this year, but even at that rate, candy companies end up with a surplus.
The leftovers end up in some interesting places, including farms, where some farmers feed the candy to their animals. Chocolate and other treats that can’t be sold, or candy bits leftover from production, are sold to meat and dairy producers, who in turn add them to their animal feed.
The agriculture and candy industries frame the practice as “sustainable” — a way to curb waste that would otherwise go to landfills. Cargill, for example, deems it “upcycling” and a “win-win” for farm animals and the environment.
While feeding food waste to animals is preferable to tossing the waste to rot in landfills, both meat and candy companies benefit financially from the practice. Some food waste experts say consumers should be questioning why there is so much of this waste to begin with…
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