I’m Honestly Fed Up With All The Bad News So I Illustrated The Best News Of 2018 (And Recent Years)

This is great. Here in Brazil, supermarkets and restaurants avoid donating food even when they actually wanted to because the food donated continues to be the donor's responsibility, so if, for example, it' poorly transported or stored and goes bad and someone eats it and gets sick, it's your store that will get in trouble even if it was fine when you donated, so they're all scared of donating.

Where I live (CO,USA) some of the grocery stores, and Mom and Pop bakeries donate food to nonprofits. Walmart will not. They throw away perfectly good food, for fear of liability. When I worked for 7-11, they threw away food instead of giving it away. So their minimum wage employees are tossing food that they would be very happy to be able to take home. We were told to open packages and empty the food in the trash, and spray disinfectant on it. This was to discourage homeless people from pulling it out of the trash. I've seen homeless people pull food out of the trash, when they have no idea if it is safe to eat. None of it makes sense to me.

There is a company that buys and then sells food that can't be sold in supermarkets due to size, shape, or any other abnormalities. The company is called "Imperfect Produce."

whoa this is a life saver!

How would you ever enforce something like that? Are French police officers searching through the dumpsters at supermarkets every night looking for thrown away food?

In Sweden its illegal to take food that's been thrown by the store. R******d

Should be an international law.

First of all, the first country was Belgium. Second of all, as a French girl, I can tell you this concerns only stores that are bigger than 400m². So the smaller markets/stores still have the right to throw and put bleach on their unsold goods, which is awful. Thirdly, the donations must be under the contract established between the store and an association, and then the association disposes of the food, whether with farmers or homeless or smtg else, they can decide what to do with it. Voilà voilà.

The Baha’i youth programs, the ongoing services that they provide is profoundly moving. The world embracing thoughts of the elimination of all forms of prejudice, going forward and changing minds and spirit to be more in tuned with the concerns of the world at large.

Can the organization that gets the donated unsellable food throw it away?

Donate excess supermarkets food? "HO HO HO Merry CHRISTmas".

Fantastic law!

Here in Canada some stores through out some food as well. One time I was at one of our major grocery store chains and they had milk that was close to the expiration date. I was unemployed at the time and didn't have much money so I asked if I could buy the milk for half price. They would not sell it to me because they explained they couldn't in case someone gets sick. My comment is IF YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO TELL IF MILK OR MEAT IS NOT GOOD ANYMORE, THEN YOU DESERVE TO PAY FULL PRICE.

The name of the Brewery is Saltwater Brewery. All of the rings are made out of the barley and grains used in the brewing process. So they are completely edible by humans and sea creatures.

France is on a good way!

Yes! I hate the argument that "sanitary products are a luxury." They are not, do you want blood all over your pants? All over your house?

This made me so happy.

This is amazing

That is incredible!

YES! Dogs are friends, not food.

Taken long enough! I was so happy when Covergirl became cruelty free. I love wearing makeup and stuff, but so many of the big brands still test on animals.

I have mixed feelings about pandas.... because people mostly only care about protecting "cute" animals like them. I've read and watched so many times about how "ugly" animals like bugs and amphibians are always getting worse off because all the conservation funds and efforts go towards the ones the public likes... But I guess helping some animals is still better than no animals.

That's the cutest boob I have ever seen

huh in Poland several cities decided to ban fireworks on new year because of animals.

We banned it also in Romania!

yeah… it's a small step… much more are needed

If more people would recycle plastic, that would be a good start. I'm appalled at all the trash I see thrown away, that could have been recycled. And not just plastic. My son and I were discussing today the problem of plastic straws. Why couldn't they be made of a fast-degrading material, or even paper? They are only going to be used one time, and can end up in the sea or landfills, taking who knows how long to degrade.

More farmers are keeping bees to benefit crop production, or are allowing beekeepers to keep hives on their property.

Serious question, does that sugar tax include high fructose corn syrup? If not, it should. Sodas were unhealthy before, but when soft drink companies switched to HFCS they became even worse.

The main function of today prisons is to transform problematic people into professional criminals, the whole concept need to be reworked IMHO

Ugh, doesn't it disgust people to know that their comfort comes from something ripped off of something else's body?

This is adorable!

we need to make ocean plastic profitable, if companies start using it and poor people can harvest it and sell it , it is a win win. Stop creating plastic,reuse.

A simple act can really save lives ♥

This is good, correct? The crying is confusing. He should be small and happy.

Unfortunately, E-Cigarette smoking is on the rise, especially among teens due to the flavors that comes in them that teens like :(

That is the largest inheritance of a single person I've EVER heard of.

I hope that that is true..

I wasn't diagnosed until I was in my 40s. It's really hard to detect in girls for the simple reason that all the emphasis is placed on boys' symptoms. It's the same with heart attacks. Everybody knows about classic male symptoms. Fewer people know how differently it presents in women.

@Jeff: I so agree. In almost every case of school shootings, and other mass shootings, the shooter had significant mental health issues. Often, they had stopped getting treatment, stopped taking their meds, etc. Mass shootings are as much a mental health issue, as a gun control issue.

I just hope this is an actual fact... Because I know that here we have a very fake literacy rate made out of people who can pretty much only write their own names and maybe a few words but are already considered literate for statistic purposes.

They've done a great job of slowing their population growth by giving out free condoms

I got metal re-usable ones for my family! They're only about 5-7 bucks and usually come with a carrying sleeve and a pipe cleaner.

Goats are the true GOAT (get it)

Tbh it's kind of unfair that solar power is currently such a niche product, and easy, affordable solar panels for people to buy would really make a difference

And they do it using a mixture of mud and vegetation..so it's environmentally conscious too.

It is like turning metal into gold...

Good news from a purely ecological point of view. Bad news for the people who make a living in the coal-mining industry. Ironically, it's exactly today that the last coal-mine in my area closes, leaving many unemployed. Maybe someone should finance projects that help these people get new jobs.

Give peace a chance

That's it, scientists! Spit in death's face!

Yes, but this is worded a bit poorly, imo. I mean, are they drinking less, or are other countries actually just worse than them now?

Burning Coal to produce the electricity to power electric vehicles, produces more emissions than a gas powered vehicle.

FACT: if you throw money and fame at the problem for long enough, it will solve itself

Thanks to democratization and capitalism. Please world, let's keep on the path of progress!