TikToker Sparks Online Debate After Exposing He's Being Forced To Dump Donuts That Were Not Sold

Food is life, is it not? Everybody loves to eat good food, especially when it is with their favorite food buddies, and the place doesn’t even matter!

While it is true that food is always part of whatever program, event, party, snack, and, of course, our daily needs, there is a significant percentage of waste created just by this. We must consider that water isn’t the only gold; food is too.

In a year, 108 billion pounds (imagine that number!) of food waste is generated in the United States, which is equivalent to 130 billion meals and over $408 billion worth of food. That is nearly 40% of the overall food produced in America.

The numbers are quite shocking when you read them out loud, and people are usually horrified when they hear about this. The question we need to ask is: why is there so much food waste produced in America when there are so many people starving here?

One of the answers is capitalism from privately owned companies. What also slows down the system is the apathy from the authorities, or even just the “no action” at all. On the brighter side, a TikToker, @iknowadonis, posted a video about how much food their gas station throws away every working day.

“Do my job really got me wasting 66 donuts, and if I bite one, I'm gonna get fired,” @iknowadonis captioned in the TikTok video. This particular post had the viewers fired up since @iknowadonis usually posts clips of him while working, but this one really caught the attention of many.

The video garnered up to 5 million views and over 5 thousand comments. Most commenters were really upset at the idea of throwing away perfectly good food.

There were also commenters sharing that some workplaces do not allow their employees to eat any food left after store hours; it is meant to be thrown away, as some stores do. Though not all follow this kind of protocol, some managers allow their employees to take some of the leftovers (they aren’t really leftovers) before discarding the rest.

Some even try to sneak out the food; they just make sure not to get caught in the act, or else…

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Here are some comments from @iknowadonis’ TikTok post:

Just some hacks from Cunty Jesus so that the donuts would not go to waste. Unlimited donuts for you too!

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Still, the biggest question is why management allows perfectly good food to go to waste when starving people could make use of it. Someone should perhaps make a law about this…

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If this amount of leftover food were just properly handled, it could have saved many lives, really. Just saying.

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Now that’s just a very sad point of view. When did being hungry become an animal?

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Now we’re just adding more food waste instead of giving it to starving people. Sad.

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Seriously…

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Nice suggestion.

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Lowkey helping out with the food waste problem.

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Here's the video:

Seriously, the world might not be such a starving place if we only had more access to address this food waste problem. But thankfully, there are still kind-hearted people who try their best to help those in need in America and tackle the food waste issue.

You might want to read about Feeding America, which helps people who need food! You can reach their website here.

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