Dr. Mercola September 11 2008 13,852 views
leppert,
I used to work at a hotel reception during college. A guest once was outraged at the amount of food that is trown away. I checked in to see if the food could not be given away to shelters, unfortunately because people are so sue happy the hotels will throw the food away before they give it away and expose themsleves to a law suit by someone who claims they got sick of the food. The legal system needs to change first.
I agree. While I am ambivalent these days on conspiracies, both supposed and possibly real...
*(the supposeds are insane. Lizard people? Geez!)
*(the possibly real? Well, you know, if you are dumb enough to think that you should never save money, that housing prices ALWAYS go up, and that using a home equity loan to remodel a den to house your big screen TV you also bought with that home equity loan, then how hard do you think it would be to create a set of circumstances such that the same willfully and malignantly stupid population we have in the US will wind up losing most of their assets to the GSEs this government is clearly setting up?)
The icing on this cake is the amount of money the big multinational ag firms spend on producing mule strains of food crops. In what twisted mind is it a good idea to produce a competitive crop gene set that is predisposed to producing sterile mule seeds?
Fifty years ago, this would be the storyline in a science fiction, end of the world thriller. Today, it is simply business. No point in outlining the parentage of that way of thinking because people have a Pavlovian response to looking away from truth that messes up their ability enjoy their cable TV, beer and Nascar....
You've heard about vegans, but what about freegans?
Use your Google skills for more info. Here's an excerpt from one dumpster diver's site:
"The first day I dived for food, I had just been IN the store buying marked down 1/2 gallons of orange juice for $0.50. While I was doing the rest of my shopping, someone came with a cart and loaded up all the orange juice into a shopping cart.
"So, I hung around to see what happened to it. They wheeled the cart out and threw scores of gallons and 1/2 gallons of orange juice away...that were still 2 days from their due date. They were pasteurized. They were still cold.
It was winter, so it was cool. I went to the dumpster and grabbed as many as I could carry. This experience was life changing for me.
"Where would you draw the line? Would you not buy the marked down OJ? Would you take it out of the guy's cart if he were a few feet from the dumpster and asked you if you wanted it for free? Would you take it out of the dumpster?
"We food divers tap into the sad fact that we're throwing away 96 BILLION pounds of perfectly good food into land fills each year in this country. By EPA estimates, we're spending $4.8 BILLION a year disposing of that perfectly good food.
"You can read more about food waste here:,Food Recovery and Gleaning - USDA
I'm working on a separate page for food diving. Check back later."
Source: members.aol.com/.../thedumpsterlady.htm
Islander, clearly we disagree on an number of things. That is okay.
I have to say thanks for this link, though. I plan to see about implementing this. My first thought was that this is the oddest link I have followed in recent memory.
...but whatever makes it possible for me to retire earlier and go raise fruit trees and children in a third world country. Not for export, for self-sufficiency.
-Tim
A very unusual link-but thought-provoking. Thank you!