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> Giusi wrote:
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>> Give me one reason why you should throw away food grown using finite
>> resources such as petroleum and thus put food out of the reach of any
>> other human being who is willing to work for his food?
>>
>> India may have some rich people, but they do not have the richest on the
>> planet. They have plenty of poor, too. The point is not India, but
>> everybody who will shortly not be able to eat properly to support good
>> health, in every country including yours, because of waste. It isn't
>> just the USA, either. It was written that one-third of food in the UK
>> was thrown away, too.
> Hunger has always existed. It isn't something new.
> Over population, drought and many other uncontrollable factors as well as
> governmental corruption HAS done more to encourage famine and death than
> my tossing out my browned lettuce leaves (which actually go into the
> composter). You're an American, Guisi....what are you doing to fix the
> problem? What are the Italian's doing?

I think there is a lot less waste here. We also compost and many more
people grow some things to eat. You won't find a huge percentage of
Milanese or Romans spending their weekend hoeing an orto, but lots more than
in the US.

Some helps include: being able to buy just what you need, like 100 grams of
this or 6 slices of that; much less prepackaged stuff, although they can get
rid of a lot more and most plastic bags; a public that understands food a
good bit better and who think it matters; central recycling centers that
need to be funded to stay open much longer hours!

I was the only one with a recycling bin until last year, and now everyone
has one and I have 2. Their hens also get the salady things. We are
sharing seed purchase as possible, because almost no one needs as many seeds
as come in a packet. We share crops, too, since they are somewhat
staggered. When the farmer reaps wheat a liter jar of it means nothing to
him and a lot to me. Same for some of my more exotic things.

We've all said smartass things like send the cabbage to the Korean orphans,
but now we know that agriculture and petroleum are intertwined and water is
becoming in short supply. It's immoral to waste. Composting is not waste
as long as it is returned to workable earth.