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Post by Jupiter on Feb 28, 2008 11:22:37 GMT -5
Just heard on the tube yesterday, 30 billion dollars a year in food waste in america. I thought that recycle and good programs were sucking all this food up. But they showed how if a can loses its label its thrown in the trash well obviously they can't sell it, but hey a momeless person isnt going to care. Poor people aren't going to care. Loaves of bread are thrown away etc. Should be made illegal. Then maybe we could help people alot worse off than us. Imagine throwing food away in a third world country.
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Post by MagnetMan on Feb 28, 2008 12:30:35 GMT -5
Imagine throwing food away in a third world country. Awful shame. But it is a problem of collection and distribution - and dare I say it, funding. A nationwide organization would need to be set up in order manage it if it was made illegal. It would be nice if each big grocery chain decided independently to make a charitable move in that direction. Maybe we should compose a form letter and send it to all of them. How about you draft it and we will get it out?
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Post by Jupiter on Feb 29, 2008 11:07:42 GMT -5
Uh ....yah....actually the problem isn't with the local grocery chains. This problem goes to the USDA FDA and all those government agencies that are there to protect us. If someone got a can without a label on it and got sick for some stupid reason then the food chains could be sued. But there is a whole movement of "rich" people right now who are denouncing their wealth and living out of dumpsters to make a political statement. Which IMO is pretty cool. On the personal note I have spoken to the produce guy where I shop and they do recycle all their waste, give their breads to the Salvation army etc. Now resturaunt waste.......
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Post by TarotDragon on Feb 29, 2008 14:52:31 GMT -5
But there is a whole movement of "rich" people right now who are denouncing their wealth and living out of dumpsters to make a political statement. Yeah, I heard about those. They're called "freegans" or something, right? I saw brief snippet on them and the stuff they found. Quite astonishing what people will throw away.
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Post by johnb1 on Mar 1, 2008 21:51:10 GMT -5
The lifestyle of the Society have many levels and have a Classifications of Hierarchy So sad really to know that is happening right now and it is inevitable and hard to change the way people doing right now according to the statistics that made by the scientist since they collect many surveys globally that Earth itself can sustain all the people by not starving and dying with no food to eat on their plate. Matthew 24 Hope this video make some awakening and always hunt those high-classes personality youtube.com/watch?v=FazTCoDLwnE
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Post by Jupiter on Mar 3, 2008 12:03:40 GMT -5
But there is a whole movement of "rich" people right now who are denouncing their wealth and living out of dumpsters to make a political statement. Yeah, I heard about those. They're called "freegans" or something, right? I saw brief snippet on them and the stuff they found. Quite astonishing what people will throw away. "Freegans" I haven't heard that, cool name. I think that even beats out the vegans. Imagine if nothing that still had use got thrown away. We probably wouldn't have to outsource .
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Post by atman on Mar 4, 2008 0:44:29 GMT -5
Leadership
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."
Albert Einstein
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Post by TarotDragon on Mar 4, 2008 12:46:11 GMT -5
"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."
Here, here, atman.
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Post by Trivium515 on Mar 4, 2008 17:24:50 GMT -5
Earth itself can sustain all the people by not starving and dying with no food to eat on their plate. Sad indeed, especially when you take into account that the world could potentially support 1 thousand billion, and is currently struggling to support just 6 billion.
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Post by TarotDragon on Mar 6, 2008 11:43:00 GMT -5
Now restaurant waste....... Its absolutely awful. I work in a store and it has this little snack bar, just sandwiches, nothing fancy, but all sorts of good food gets thrown away. Perfectly okay lettuce for example, is thrown out because its "not green enough" and people will complain. So the white or sometimes even yellow part of a head of lettuce is tossed in the trash and there's nothing wrong with it. Its not rotten or nothing. And that was just one example and we're just a little snack bar. I'd hate to think of the big restaurant......
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Post by lavender1 on Aug 17, 2009 18:08:46 GMT -5
Well, it can't be solved if starving people keep breeding without the ability to feed their children. So.....birth control? hi there! everything under control, used to that? from genetic to social engineering, politics mutating to "global, total, brutal" population management? asking naive questions kind of drawing on others' energies and efforts then glibly retreating to the comfort of one's anonymity? sorry, if this sounds not pc to you. your post certainly irritates me. peace though.
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Post by lavender1 on Nov 13, 2009 13:15:49 GMT -5
ngo's still there? a meagre under 1% of the gdp allocated to officially assist developing countries, but most of that assists first domestic admin, experts and tech companies selected to further third world corruption and ignore the needy's plight. that's reality!
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