Originally Posted by
Duke787
This is 100% the case. I have a 2 year old and the amount of waste is disheartening but there's not really anything we can do about it.
We can't force him to eat his food but once we've prepared it, it can only be saved and offered again so many times before it has to go into the bin / compost / disposal / etc. Even the times he does eat it, he may not eat the whole thing and that adds up. The dog is the big beneficiary when it's chicken or beef but when it's vegetables most of the time they eventually end up getting wasted
Interesting. My dogs would have eaten just about any vegetable. All you had to do was drop it on the floor.
I wonder if the study counted stuff most people would naturally dispose of such as potato or carrot peels. Technically they’re edible and no one living in starvation would consider tossing them, but I don’t eat a lot of peels, the ends of celery or such.