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

[CrazyGamer2017]

jigokutamago said:

CrazyGamer2017 said:

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.

I don't understand. If producing locally results in a cheaper price, wouldn't firms just move towards producing locally, even under capitalism?

Good question, we should ask those big corporations why they choose to produce halfway across the world rather than locally.

But if I may venture a guess, it's probably cause by producing halfway across the world they get tax incentives and other dirty tricks that allow them to maximize profit at the expense of everything else: quality, the environment, paying decent wages to their workers over there, consumers etc. Again Capitalism in all its splendor.