Article: Food Waste.

[rvijay]

http://couponing.about.com/od/groceryzone/a/food_waste.htm

[rvijay]

Apart from this waste, it is also evident that there is a lot of overeating from the associated problems discussed in the media. Wow !! That really seems a lot of food waste.

Vijay

[Kiz]

Food waste disgusts me. I was watching a documentary about farming the other day, and it was showing farmers ploughing pumpkins back under the ground because the amount they would get paid for them was less than it would cost to harvest them, and it was cheaper from the farmers to waste the pumpkins rather than pick them.

[rvijay]

Article on Food Bubble:
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update22.htm

[wannadisco]

I live in student halls at university and the amount of waste my flatmates make and the other students is astounding! I hate throwing anything away and it makes me sad that they dont even realize that its wrong

[peterpaul]

I'd write tickets to all those wasters!

The CEO's are the biggest wasters, including B.U.S.H (Bull----)!

The waste goes into landfills and the junk gets into the water and people end up recycling the toxins back into their systems!

BUY BULK!
BUY UNPROCESSED FOOD!
GRIND YOUR OWN GRAINS! (Better yet, soak the grains and mash them)!
FERMENT KOMBUCHA - your own beverages instead of vegan coca cola!
GROW YOUR OWN HERBS! (saves on packaging and tastes better)!
DON'T THROW VEGETABLE PEELS IN GARBAGE! (throw them backyard or if you don't have a backyard, throw it in a forest)!
BUY LOCAL!
QUIT CANS!
QUIT PAYING MUSICIANS TO BE MILLIONAIRES AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN MUSIC WITH A GUITAR! (saves on packaging and wasting of money)!
USE ONLY A BICYCLE FOR TRANSPORTATION! (forget the expensive backpacking and climbing trips around the nation)!
GET A WATER FILTER TO FILTER FLUORIDE and other contaminants!
EAT LOTS OF FRESH, RAW VEGGIES so that you save electricity!
DON'T SUPPORT PROCESSED VEGAN/VEGETARIAN FOODS WITH A LOT OF CRAPOLA! MAKE YOUR OWN!
FORGET RADIOS AND NEWSPAPERS - the information is always the same and they are owned by the same people!
PLANT A GARDEN and if you can't, plant near a local city park where no one will notice!
DON'T OWN PETS! (It's expensive and bad to keep pets that should live in the wild like tropical fish!)

DON'T POLLUTE AND DON'T WASTE MONEY ON FASHION WHEN YOU COULD MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHES! THAT'S RIGHT. GET A BOOK AT THE LIBRARY AND LEARN HOW TO KNIT AND WEAVE YOUR OWN WOOL SHIRTS AND PANTS AND UNDERWEAR!

[Coney]

The waste goes into landfills and the junk gets into the water and people end up recycling the toxins back into their systems!


If you think that's bad, get this:
Viagra and Anti-Depressants cannot get cleaned out of the water supply. In large cities where the use of these drugs if prevelant, the whole community is--by default-- also on these drugs.

It's not all bad--everyone's happy and having plenty of sex.

[rvijay]

What is the concentration of these medicines in water ? Overall it is probably of the order of 0.0001% and insignificant.

Vijay

[bumble]

"DON'T OWN PETS! (It's expensive and bad to keep pets that should live in the wild like tropical fish!)"

whooooo buddy.aint gonna happen.