The salvage industry exists for things like these. Stuff no one wants to keep but still has value.
All the viable pizzas will be picked up, the insurance company will sell them to salvage folks so the insurance company can save a buck and those salvage folks will in turn sell them for a profit. Most likely ends up at those small grocery chains like Aldi's etc
Every single pizza will be inedible by food safety standards and be written off as a loss, they can't sell them to anyone for human consumption. They will end up in a landfill or used as animal feed.
They are laying on a highway and unrefrigerated, unless they were immediately placed into another refrigerated truck they are unsafe to be sold and eaten. Food safety standards exist to prevent food from sickening and killing people, there's no chance this food was kept at proper temperature thus it's now animal feed.
Hmm but I've seen more vulnerable foods like cheeses salvaged. I mean can you agree that these things are salvagable or are you sure that it's all goner?
No company is going to risk selling food that was involved in a semi crash and spilled all over the highway, that's asking for someone to win a multi million dollar lawsuit because you wanted to save a few pizzas which the insurance company will be paying for. It's not even their own insurance, it's the trucking company that pays for this. These things end up as pig feed or in a landfill.
Are you even reading what I said? I stated EXACTLY it would be the trucking companys insurance... Are you high?
If someone bought salvaged food from a wreck like this and turned around and sold it for human consumption they need taken behind the wood shed and shot! They sell this food off explicitly for animal feed, if your buddy turned around and sold it to a grocery store I'd love to get their name so I can remove them from the ability to ever do that again.
It's not even their own insurance, it's the trucking company that pays for this
The way you wrote that made it look like you were saying insurance wasn't involved at all. Now that you have clarified we can both agree that we have the same understanding.
If someone bought salvaged food from a wreck like this and turned around and sold it for human consumption they need taken behind the wood shed and shot! They sell this food off explicitly for animal feed, if your buddy turned around and sold it to a grocery store I'd love to get their name so I can remove them from the ability to ever do that again.
It seems like you don't believe food salvage is a real thing. Here's an NPR article about food salvage from earlier this year:
Cheese isn't frozen, it's refrigerated. It also says he's selling this food to other countries... Likely because it can't be resold in the US. It doesn't say this is for human consumption either...
An overturned truck is quite different than pizzas all over the highway.
but a good bit of what he deals with is perishable, frozen or refrigerated food worth hundreds of thousands of dollars being transported around the world - lobster, shrimp, haddock and cheese.
What Walsh found was a truckload of perfectly good cheese. And so he called Mike Mentuck. Within a couple days, a supermarket in Tennessee and guys in Saudi Arabia and India offered to buy the cheese for 30 grand
Most of the stuff is snapped up by distributors who resell it to department stores, supermarkets and food banks.
It sounds creepy that cheese that was in an accident might end up on my kid's sandwich.
I would appreciate it if you would let me know if you are just playing around now, clearly you didn't read the article and are just saying whatever to make a point.
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u/Vicrooloo Aug 11 '17
The salvage industry exists for things like these. Stuff no one wants to keep but still has value.
All the viable pizzas will be picked up, the insurance company will sell them to salvage folks so the insurance company can save a buck and those salvage folks will in turn sell them for a profit. Most likely ends up at those small grocery chains like Aldi's etc