Featured: Waste-Stream Airline PretzelsI met a cool Kat, Iris Zielske, at the ECHO workshop. She's serious about helping our friends on the other side of the world. I've tried to embed her video. you can google her pretty easily.
Food: I didn't do any scavenging for food. I have allot of food, mostly junk food.
What can I say, What ever happened to going to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker for fresh food and goods. To gathering together, sitting down, cooking at home ect. I guess Fast food happened. Our great nation covers the land with billions of pounds of pesticides through the industrial farming revolution over the last centuries. It is mono-cultural productions and confined animal feedlots. These are very successful in making food but many would agree that is the wrong direction of farming.
The United Produces more than twice the required daily caloric intake of every man, woman, and child, but as many people in the U.S. goes hungry as Canada's entire population. What is the deal. 16,000 children die every day from needless hunger. 852 million people go hungry every year world wide.
So we waste food, I'm over it now. I've accepted that I have no reason to spend any money on food when I can live off of the waste-stream. It has been over 10 weeks now.
It is just a stance I am willing to step out on. I feel that it is an injustice that others go hungry for me to live the american dream. How could I ever explain the cause and effect relationship between what I demand as a consumer, and what negative environmental externalities exist? It is not like I understood the issues the first time I heard them.
Moving Down the Food Chain
What we eat affects the planet. Moving down the food chain will reduce the demand of livestock, water, fossil fuel, land, fertilizer and deforestation. Lester Brown discusses a plan where changing our diet reduces greenhouse gas emissions and may work to stabilize climate. He sums that we should be doing ourselves and civilization a favor by changing our diet from high in livestock products toward plant based. Experts agree with Brown’s view on the sustainability and impact of diet (Pollan, 09: Lappe, 95). The same experts share their awareness that Earth’s affluent residents are responsible for the growing demand in livestock.
Though in the last 7 of 8 years grain production has fell short of meeting the consumption needs of the world, the demand of meat by the wealthy has been increasing twice as fast as population growth (USDA, 2006). It makes little sense that 16,000 children a day are dying from hunger and related causes (Lederer, 2007). The world uses 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. 20% of this grain being demanded by ethanol distilleries, 37% used as feed for livestock. Meanwhile the U.S. is consuming up to 88% of its grain produced through meat. Using the information presented by Brown, the connection between water, grain, livestock, and people can be seen. As we move down the food chain our diet demands more locally and seasonally produced food, thus more sustainable.
Brown, Lester, Plan B; 3.0
De’Lappe, Francis, Diet For a Small planet
Pollan, Michael, In Defense of Food
Lederer, Edith M., U.N.: Hunger Kills 18,000 Kids Each Day, Associated Press, February 2007
USDA, Last Food Shipment Signals End of 25-Year WFP Aid to China, Asian Economic News, 8 April 2005
Food: I didn't do any scavenging for food. I have allot of food, mostly junk food.
What can I say, What ever happened to going to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker for fresh food and goods. To gathering together, sitting down, cooking at home ect. I guess Fast food happened. Our great nation covers the land with billions of pounds of pesticides through the industrial farming revolution over the last centuries. It is mono-cultural productions and confined animal feedlots. These are very successful in making food but many would agree that is the wrong direction of farming.
The United Produces more than twice the required daily caloric intake of every man, woman, and child, but as many people in the U.S. goes hungry as Canada's entire population. What is the deal. 16,000 children die every day from needless hunger. 852 million people go hungry every year world wide.
So we waste food, I'm over it now. I've accepted that I have no reason to spend any money on food when I can live off of the waste-stream. It has been over 10 weeks now.
It is just a stance I am willing to step out on. I feel that it is an injustice that others go hungry for me to live the american dream. How could I ever explain the cause and effect relationship between what I demand as a consumer, and what negative environmental externalities exist? It is not like I understood the issues the first time I heard them.
Moving Down the Food Chain
What we eat affects the planet. Moving down the food chain will reduce the demand of livestock, water, fossil fuel, land, fertilizer and deforestation. Lester Brown discusses a plan where changing our diet reduces greenhouse gas emissions and may work to stabilize climate. He sums that we should be doing ourselves and civilization a favor by changing our diet from high in livestock products toward plant based. Experts agree with Brown’s view on the sustainability and impact of diet (Pollan, 09: Lappe, 95). The same experts share their awareness that Earth’s affluent residents are responsible for the growing demand in livestock.
Though in the last 7 of 8 years grain production has fell short of meeting the consumption needs of the world, the demand of meat by the wealthy has been increasing twice as fast as population growth (USDA, 2006). It makes little sense that 16,000 children a day are dying from hunger and related causes (Lederer, 2007). The world uses 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. 20% of this grain being demanded by ethanol distilleries, 37% used as feed for livestock. Meanwhile the U.S. is consuming up to 88% of its grain produced through meat. Using the information presented by Brown, the connection between water, grain, livestock, and people can be seen. As we move down the food chain our diet demands more locally and seasonally produced food, thus more sustainable.
Brown, Lester, Plan B; 3.0
De’Lappe, Francis, Diet For a Small planet
Pollan, Michael, In Defense of Food
Lederer, Edith M., U.N.: Hunger Kills 18,000 Kids Each Day, Associated Press, February 2007
USDA, Last Food Shipment Signals End of 25-Year WFP Aid to China, Asian Economic News, 8 April 2005
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