Food Waste

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A good deal of that waste comes from mandated behaviors. One egg in a carton breaks so the law says the entire carton must be thrown out. You can't move eggs from one carton to another. That sort of thing.

There is also the amount of food thrown away in unopened packages due to passing its "use by" date. Taken off the shop shelf or thrown into the bin at home.

There is also the amount of cooked food that it thrown away daily due to laws governing cafes, take out and fast food. Some places must throw away food at intervals through the day and never carry food over to the next day.

There is also the waste due to broken refrigeration machinery, both commercial and in home. Power goes out, or the compressor breaks and you find yourself with 10 tons of melted frozen fish, or just a home freezer full of spoiled meat and ice cream.

Right now you can conserve, eat your leftovers, avoid waste. There is still food to conserve in the developed world, but for how long?

What we are facing shortly is a completely different situation world wide that has a good chance of snowballing up the ladder of national status. One half the food production of the world for this year has disappeared. You are still thinking it will only be an inconvenience to you, because you are in a developed nation. Those other people will starve, but you will be OK, because your nation has status.

With so much waste how can we starve?

We can starve because we can not eat yesterdays' leftovers when we had nothing to eat yesterday. You can not save, conserve, economize and recycle what is not there. The memory of waste in times past will not fill your belly next autumn.

There is about to be the largest mass migration of humans, from the countries that are starving to the ones that still have food, that has occurred in human history. When they start walking they will push a wave of people ahead of them like a tsunami as the greatly reduced amount of food in each region is consumed and they have to move to the next.

Actually the only starving people we need not worry about are the ones living on islands. Unless they can walk on water.