Question: Would it make more sense to eat the foods you want to encourage?Not for me, currently I'm on a course of action.
Using my purchasing power to support my neighbors is the way to go. I don't think we should have a choice between an organic tomato from Mexico or tomato from local. It's difficult to make the best, healthy or environmental choices sometimes. food should just be local, as a culture.
I'm vocal, and until the waste-stream experiment, have been active in supporting local farmers markets. I'm still a member of a local winter farmers co-op. In the interest's of frugal living, i'd rarely spend the money anyway.
My stance for the moment is that the cash I would be spending on food, can go to feeding starving people. At this time, i see that if I have the ability to live off of waste, (i don't' want to waste perfectly good waste) then i have responsibility to use the resource. Just who am I to spend perfectly good money on food for me, when i can live just fine from the waste-stream and send that $ towards needy bellies. After reflecting on the question again, I'm wondering what I'm trying to encourage or what I want to see grow.
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Looks like I ate some hard boiled eggs in the morning and cooked some Eggs last thing, at night.
In between egg meals was a mess of scores; First thing was a large, mostly intact flat-bread sandwich. Then a nice ham and swiss sub with a few types of cookies and a muffin. Also found some animal soup crackers during this hunt.
Between classes I pulled some fries cookies, PBJ sandwich, and a fruit cup from the waste.
Afterwords I enjoyed the pizza from Dominoes with cheese dip and ate the muffin and cookies from the day.
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Song i wrote a while back
Voiceless
no time for material things while i
fetch my water through the dangerous streats
it's miles a day just for a drink
spend my life praying for rain
no well can help me now
forecast calls for dry
you're drowning there in your high class life while you
condemn me to to die
if you hear what i'm saying today you got
life, some call it freedom
you've been blessed with an open-mind
grab a friend, you and me we can beat'em
... the shirt off your back such a
small price to pay
take heed, the power you have
faith, save the day
refugees of human-rights,
we come for food some call it freedom
extreme poverty, starvation, take me away
I can't explain this suffering
struggle for my life
don't you dare turn your back on me
...condemn me to die
wam
Using my purchasing power to support my neighbors is the way to go. I don't think we should have a choice between an organic tomato from Mexico or tomato from local. It's difficult to make the best, healthy or environmental choices sometimes. food should just be local, as a culture.
I'm vocal, and until the waste-stream experiment, have been active in supporting local farmers markets. I'm still a member of a local winter farmers co-op. In the interest's of frugal living, i'd rarely spend the money anyway.
My stance for the moment is that the cash I would be spending on food, can go to feeding starving people. At this time, i see that if I have the ability to live off of waste, (i don't' want to waste perfectly good waste) then i have responsibility to use the resource. Just who am I to spend perfectly good money on food for me, when i can live just fine from the waste-stream and send that $ towards needy bellies. After reflecting on the question again, I'm wondering what I'm trying to encourage or what I want to see grow.
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Looks like I ate some hard boiled eggs in the morning and cooked some Eggs last thing, at night.
In between egg meals was a mess of scores; First thing was a large, mostly intact flat-bread sandwich. Then a nice ham and swiss sub with a few types of cookies and a muffin. Also found some animal soup crackers during this hunt.
Between classes I pulled some fries cookies, PBJ sandwich, and a fruit cup from the waste.
Afterwords I enjoyed the pizza from Dominoes with cheese dip and ate the muffin and cookies from the day.
///////////////
Song i wrote a while back
Voiceless
no time for material things while i
fetch my water through the dangerous streats
it's miles a day just for a drink
spend my life praying for rain
no well can help me now
forecast calls for dry
you're drowning there in your high class life while you
condemn me to to die
if you hear what i'm saying today you got
life, some call it freedom
you've been blessed with an open-mind
grab a friend, you and me we can beat'em
... the shirt off your back such a
small price to pay
take heed, the power you have
faith, save the day
refugees of human-rights,
we come for food some call it freedom
extreme poverty, starvation, take me away
I can't explain this suffering
struggle for my life
don't you dare turn your back on me
...condemn me to die
wam
Loving this. You bring up good points. It must be odd to live off of foods that you don't support and that you know are much-less-than-desirable for their cost and countless other consequences. Thank goodness you aren't "buying" into them. ;) You know what's up; major props for acting against the disparities and nonsense that most of us perpetuate everyday, including myself!!! Thank you for the inspiration and constant reminder of the truth.
ReplyDeleteWanna jump in mud puddles with me?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EyI4p0yjDQ
Hey wayne, this is chad, and i have just been reading your blog. i wanted to point out something your blog has led me to: i clean my plate now. I do not throw away anything. I am not saying this to be rude, and i am not attempting to starve you, i am just saying bc of your experiment, i eat everthing, where before i would toss my scraps aside. I havent figured out what this means yet.
ReplyDeleteI like your tomato comparison...
ReplyDeleteAnd you're right.
Not just food - everything should be local.