Posted on 03/04/2014 7:04:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
More self-loathing. You have not seen waste until you see how much grain crop is eaten by rodents and destroyed by neglect and poor handling in places like India.
But this pales into insignificance when you consider that a good fraction of our entire corn harvest is burned as fuel.
Let us talk about the economic consequences to world food prices that comes from linking the market price of oil with the market price of corn.
That drought out in California is man made by our environmental friends who decided to divert it to their fake causes.
We live in the woods. When we have produce that goes bad, I feed my future meat and fowl. ;)
Food buried in landfills is not available to most.
If certain people did not try to force unwanted,unappealing “healthy” fare upon us there would be less waste.
The draught is real, and is a simple fact of nature. The water shortage is caused by humans...as you point out.
Bears repeating.
At age 44, Michael T. Snyder will start to see his body start producing more fat as a result of our common ancestral legacy. That legacy compensated for the effects of age that made it harder to forage for food and stored up whatever was eaten as fat to protect against the time when food was scarce. This tendency is programmed by our ancestral genetics and has nothing to do with gluttony.
Why kids are getting fat is another matter. They are also wasteful. When you have an over-protective culture that won’t let kids play outdoors, you have a nation of couch potato kids.
If you want to see food wasted, check out the school meals kids dump into the garbage. Most of these kids are on free lunch programs and have not learned the discipline to eat nutritious meals. Yes, eating is a discipline.
My family does not waste any food at all. If we don’t eat it then our chickens happily eat. We are not obese because we eat vegetables and beef, chickens, pork, etc. We don’t waste food and we don’t agree with Obama and we aren’t Democrats so the moron that wrote this doesn’t speak for us. Is it possible to detest these liberals more than we already do?
I pay for my food and will waste all I want, when I want. /flip
That’s about the most incomprehensible essay I’ve ever read. Seems to be a jumble of facts just tossed together with the forlorn hope that something coherent would self-assemble out of the mush.
I love you. :)
It’s free, swipe yo EBT!
It’s upon us! Repent!
For a good laugh, Check out the following site for predictions made by Holdren and his mentor, Paul Ehrlich forty years ago.
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren";.
In 1969, Holdren and co-author Paul R. Ehrlich argued, “if the population control measures are not initiated immediately, and effectively, all the technology man can bring to bear will not fend off the misery to come.”
Some recommendations:
compulsory abortion, adding sterilants to drinking water or staple foods, forced sterilization for women after they gave birth to a designated number of children,....etc
I hope it wasn’t too late!
“you’re going to see farms that have been in business 30 and 40 years, they do not have any water, they are out of business,”
30-40 years ago they weren’t farms because they were desert until someone brought in water where there wasn’t any.
While this regulatory hurdle was met, Poseidon Resources is not able to break ground until the final approval of a mitigation project for the damage done to marine life through the intake pipe is received, as required by California law. Poseidon Resources has made progress in Carlsbad, despite an unsuccessful attempt to complete construction of Tampa Bay Desal, a desalination plant in Tampa Bay, FL, in 2001. The Board of Directors of Tampa Bay Water was forced to buy Tampa Bay Desal from Poseidon Resources in 2001 to prevent a third failure of the project. Tampa Bay Water faced five years of engineering problems and operation at 20% capacity to protect marine life, so stuck to reverse osmosis filters prior to fully using this facility in 2007.[37]
In 2008, a San Leandro, California company (Energy Recovery Inc.) was desalinating water for $0.46 per cubic meter.[38]
While desalinating 1,000 US gallons (3,800 l; 830 imp gal) of water can cost as much as $3, the same amount of bottled water costs $7,945.[39]
"Many other advantages might be enumerated: For Instance, the addition of some thousand Carcases in our exportation of Barreled Beef. The Propagation of Swines Flesh, and Improvement in the Art of making good Bacon, so much wanted among us by the great destruction of Pigs, too frequent at our Tables, which are no way comparable in Taste, or Magnificence to a well grown, fat glutton, which Roasted whole will make a considerable Figure at a Lord Mayor's Feast, or any other Publick Entertainment. But this, and many others I omit being studious of Brevity."
That's where I stopped reading
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