We've all heard this at the dinner table. For One... i would like to note the idea of leftovers..mom...
Secondly, did we ever think that maybe more edibles which are untouched by consumers get wasted more?
More than 96 billion pounds of edible "surplus" food is thrown away in the U.S. Each year. It is estimated that almost 27% of our food supply is wasted.
Let's examine Walmart/publix/kroger/....
They over stock in everything, milk gets thrown out once it's reached expiration date (even though we all (should) know the milk is good for a while after the exp. date...) just like other foods. If walmart really supports their communities like they brag about then they could give away the foods to homeless shelters, charities, ext.
Expiration dates are a bunch of bull honkey if we are just being honest... if it's in a can.. it is going to last. (Not that it's the healthiest..)
We could stop producing so much as a solution.---> Nipping the surplus food and packaging required for the food would also decrease the amount of trash we dump in landfills.
If big corporations refuse to lessen amount produced (money money money...) the middle man companies (grocery stores) could at least donate the profitless edibles...
sheesh... Big Corps (who are idiots) really strike a cord with me.....it's not even all about money even in the pagan world!
Holy rusted nails BATMAN! 27% of food is wasted per year...I think we have some seriously over privileged individuals in America. I'd like to hear your thoughts on the American education system.
ReplyDeleteThis a dangerous conversation to have, and almost a form of skepticism. I think I will call it "justificational skepticism." It's also a conversation that has no desirable outcome that is tangible, and thus, like skepticism, leaves one empty.
ReplyDeleteIt goes something like this: If one begins to think of the atrocities of the world, then you at some point have to question what you are doing to help this reality become extinct. You begin thinking of ways in which to help only to realize you will inevitable fall short. This is by means an opportunity to say screw it and not do what you can, but it can be daunting, because you have to accept the fact that you will fall short. You have to question your every move. Like for example, instead of while you were writing this post you could have been working at a soup kitchen, or working a job to support a ministry financially. So how do we go about the fact that we know that somewhere at this very moment there is a starving child someone who is on the verge of death as we (yes WE, not just BIG CORPS) eat more than our share at meal time. We buy superfluous things, while we know somewhere in our minds that people elsewhere in the world are joyous in drinking dirty water because they have it better than others. So where does it stop? Can we justify any of our actions, because inevitably it will come at the cost of other helping actions that are just as necessary to someone else? I dont know the answer to this, and I usually just end it with a shrug. The easy but difficult answer comes down to a discernment of the Holy Spirit. But I think its a rarity that people actually know what this is, let alone, listen for His voice.
Thats my two cents.