What is stopping big retailers from donating their food rather than throwing it away?

[KLAMarine]

CrazyGamer2017 said:

KLAMarine said:

I'm not sure I'd automatically point a finger at capitalism for starvation in a given place. Sometimes other factors have a greater impact on food supplies like natural disasters or war. Additionally, no economic system will change the fact that seeds need planting, crops need harvesting, and food needs transportation to get to where it's needed most.

I don't know, maybe a system where food is produced locally instead of it being transported half way across the world would help toward a smaller environmental impact AND a cheaper price at retail. But transporting food half way across the world is part of globalization and globalization is one of the pillars of capitalism.

Key word here is 'maybe'.

CrazyGamer2017 said: 

As for wars and natural disasters, they cause the problems in some examples of starvation but the actual starvation is caused by the fact that the people caught in wars and natural disasters can't afford what they need to recover from said disasters and that issue of not being able to recover is directly caused by their poverty AKA lack of money AKA capitalism.

But what if farmland has been wiped out by a hurricane or flood? How's money supposed fix that? I can go to my local supermarket with pockets full of cash but if the supermarket has empty shelves, what good are my pockets full of bills?

Perhaps a lack of money is a symptom rather than a cause of a problem?