 table scraps. Tuesday, January 10, 2006 The average household wastes approximately 15 percent of the foodstuffs it buys. Out of over 160 million tons of waste that enters American landfills each year, approximately 20 percent is food-related. Twenty percent of all household waste is food-related; 10 percent are items that were once edible. In you house, you pitch a total of about 470 pounds of food turned garbage a year...that is insane...what are we doing? Wasting food, no big deal right? The big cost of food tossing is actually environmental. We grow stuff on factory farms reducing the productivity of the land. They use nasty pesticides that cause more air and water pollution, thusly poisoning the land and water. We then feed cows and chickens more antibiotics and steriods to keep them healthy and to grow larger to meet our monsterous demand for more, bigger, bargain priced--garbage. We undoubtedly feed this shit to our kids, whose pre-pubescent feet, heads and breasts are the size of full-grown giant-sized adults. So today, eat what is on your plate, put the rest in the fridge and eat it tomorrow...lay off the scrap heap a couple times a week for a change...you'll be surprised how tasty your garbage is. Scrap. SX-70, Time Zero film. Toy Camera dot com is still my favorite daily hoohaa. Comment (7) | Permalink |
