XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.sci.sociology   
      
   On 8 Apr 2007 00:15:38 -0700, "Day Brown"  wrote:   
      
   >On Apr 5, 4:06 pm, dh@. wrote:   
   >> Our garbage...our food waste...would almost certainly be   
   >> enough to end world hunger. I feel confident that every   
   >> state, and maybe even every major city, produces   
   >> millions of pounds of food waste every single day. That   
   >> wasted food goes to feed rats and other vermin we would   
   >> rather *not* feed in dumps and landfills, while humans we   
   >> would rather feed are starving. Much of the nutrition which   
   >> makes life possible--any amount or form of which is rare   
   >> and treasured to hungry people all over this planet--has   
   >> become nothing but a problem to get rid of for those of   
   >> us fortunate enough to have the "problem". Even if only   
   >> a small percentage of the people who have the problem   
   >> were to participate in organized group efforts, it's almost   
   >> certain that a large percentage of world hunger and   
   >> starvation could be reduced or eliminated. The garbage   
   >> from McDonald's alone could save how many human   
   >> lives?   
   >>   
   >> How to do it? Organization and agreement to commit to   
   >> the projects would be a first step. What to commit to would   
   >> of course be a necessary consideration. How to store,   
   >> transfer and sanitize the waste food would be some of the   
   >> biggest obstacles to overcome. Making regular use of   
   >> food grinders, dehydrators, possibly crushers of some sort,   
   >> probably UV sanitizing methods, and packaging systems   
   >> would be required on both the private and commercial   
   >> participant level. Collection and distribution would   
   >> be on a bigger scale, and would require properly developed   
   >> business level organizations and facilities in order to make   
   >> productive use of what so many of us consider to be waste.   
   >> Some sort of incentive to participate besides simply providing   
   >> life for other humans would probably also be required, or else   
   >> systems such as that would have been established and   
   >> working for years already.   
   >>   
   >> How to begin? The first thing would be to accept the idea   
   >> that it would be possible, and could be made practical and   
   >> maybe even beneficial to those who are willing to participate.   
   >> It would probably have to begin on a small scale, with groups   
   >> of interested people working together to help select other   
   >> groups and individuals in their local areas. It needs to be   
   >> kept in mind that those who would survive and benefit from   
   >> such a change in the thinking and efforts of those who could   
   >> help them, would be dependant on the stability of the system.   
   >>   
   >> But there's already a surplus of food. So would it be a waste   
   >> of time? Even if we could dry, sanitize and package millions   
   >> of pounds of nutrition from our food waste every day, would   
   >> it be of no real value? Are people who are starving just going   
   >> to have to continue to starve, regardless of how much extra   
   >> food more fortunate people have to deal with? Would they   
   >> just become another dependancy...more trouble than it would   
   >> be worth? Or could it be practical to put together a system   
   >> like that?   
   >   
   >Feed the starving babies this year, and get even more starving babies   
   >in the next generation.   
      
       Could they make the food with birth control included? Or   
   require that people take some sort of birth control in order to   
   get it? I really doubt most of those people especially want to   
   have many if any kids anyway...but they do want to have sex.   
      
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