Re: Re: Tossing food

[Guest guest]

Sandy, it's taken me a long time to get here (this place of reasoning with myself about food). Thanks for your good words and posts. If it weren't for other others on the board, I probably wouldn't be progressing as quickly, and, I hate to say it, would still be worried about diets and weighing myself. :-) Have a good day, I have a lot of walking work in the apartment to clean things up since I'm organizing things. What a job. TaiTo:

IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:10 PMSubject: Re: Re: Tossing food

Tai, Great post! You said it so well. Thank you. I think of all the food the grocery stores throw out because of the date on the package or because the produce is over ripe, etc. What a WASTE and due to health regulations as I understand it, they are not allowed to donate it to homeless or anyone. The last I heard, not even to the pigs like they used to. That might not be accurate though. Sandy

Right, Katcha. Food grows all the time under good conditions in the field, and the wild. If not picked or eaten by animals, it rots anyway. And nourishes the ground. If I don't eat food that I've paid for, what are the benefits? If I see "free food" in the supermarket or other places, does that mean I have to eat it so that it does not go to waste? If vegetation is not picked, it goes back to the ground and nourishes the earth. Did I manufacture plastic packaging? No. So if I want to, I can always put the plastic in one place and dump the food in another place. :-) So what's the bit deal in not hurting ourselves by throwing food out? At least it's not batteries, hahaha, that we're dumping in the garbage pile, and who are we hurting? If I eat the food that I don't really WANT, who am I hurting? Not the landfill, and I'm

not hurting the people who are starving because I'm not getting that unwanted or excess food to them. I really cannot think how a little bit of food that I"m going to throw out will help starving people, the food other countries send to them often rots anyway, and should I kill myself by overeating because others are starving and I have excess or unwanted food around? maybe a poor analogy, but I know I'm not going to solve the world's problem by throwing out food that will hurt me if I eat it, or which I really don't want to eat unless, of course, *I* am starving, then I am sure that I will be able to eat food I really don't like.

[Guest guest]

Tai, my plan was to do house work today too.  I have been busy and away from home so I need to ketch up with chores.  Maybe to reframe them as exercise will motivate me to have fun with it.  Sandy

 

Sandy, it's taken me a long time to get here (this place of reasoning with myself about food). Thanks for your good words and posts. If it weren't for other others on the board, I probably wouldn't be progressing as quickly, and, I hate to say it, would still be worried about diets and weighing myself. :-) Have a good day, I have a lot of walking work in the apartment to clean things up since I'm organizing things. What a job. Tai

To:

IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:10 PMSubject: Re: Re: Tossing food

 

Tai, Great post! You said it so well.  Thank you.  I think of all the food the grocery stores throw out because of the date on the package or because the produce is over ripe, etc.  What a WASTE and due to health regulations as I understand it, they are not allowed to donate it to homeless or anyone.  The last I heard, not even to the pigs like they used to.  That might not be accurate though. Sandy

 

Right, Katcha. Food grows all the time under good conditions in the field, and the wild. If not picked or eaten by animals, it rots anyway. And nourishes the ground. If I don't eat food that I've paid for, what are the benefits? If I see " free food " in the supermarket or other places, does that mean I have to eat it so that it does not go to waste? If vegetation is not picked, it goes back to the ground and nourishes the earth. Did I manufacture plastic packaging? No. So if I want to, I can always put the plastic in one place and dump the food in another place. :-) So what's the bit deal in not hurting ourselves by throwing food out? At least it's not batteries, hahaha, that we're dumping in the garbage pile, and who are we hurting? If I eat the food that I don't really WANT, who am I hurting? Not the landfill, and I'm

not hurting the people who are starving because I'm not getting that unwanted or excess food to them. I really cannot think how a little bit of food that I " m going to throw out will help starving people, the food other countries send to them often rots anyway, and should I kill myself by overeating because others are starving and I have excess or unwanted food around? maybe a poor analogy, but I know I'm not going to solve the world's problem by throwing out food that will hurt me if I eat it, or which I really don't want to eat unless, of course, *I* am starving, then I am sure that I will be able to eat food I really don't like.

[Guest guest]

yeah, but the problem partially came in today when I thought I had paid good money for the food and I didn't want to throw it out, so unfortunately I ate it. TaiTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent:

Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:14 PMSubject: Re: Tossing food

That is true at the grocery stores I go to also - MUST go into the trash, can't be donated or even sold 'discounted'. Health regulations probably play a part but its also a business decision - so that the employees can't 'discount' something they shouldn't and pass on a bargain to a friend. So sad that the few that abuse a system end up causing those who don't to suffer in the long run. I'm so for at least allowing a (pig/chicken) farmer take advantage of nearly fresh produce to feed to animals that probably don't get as much fresh foods as would benefit them.

Katcha

>

> I think of all the food

> the grocery stores throw out because of the date on the package or because

> the produce is over ripe, etc. What a WASTE and due to health regulations

> as I understand it, they are not allowed to donate it to homeless or

> anyone. The last I heard, not even to the pigs like they used to. That

> might not be accurate though. Sandy

[Guest guest]

Hi, . Is that what you do with food you can't or don't want to eat? How do you handle it? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions; food for thought. I don't have that much time or inclination to be cooking for my neighbors, but I'll certainly be thinking about giving leftovers to my neighbors. No chickens around here, and the condo doesn't want us to feed the ducks

which leave droppings on the ground and people can slip on the stuff. all kinds of problems. I used to work in a cemetery, there was a lake there with ducks and I thought it looked so pretty. But the manager of the cemetery told me that the ducks were pests because the mourners were slipping all over the stuff they naturally left behind on the grounds. I don't have the strength, animals, or stamina. TaiTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:29 PMSubject: Re: Re: Tossing food

Sorry, gotta disagree with the rah rah let's toss food thing going around.The EPA estimates that 14% of waste is food waste. Less than 3% of that is recycled. Americans throw out more food than anything else. When it does rot in the landfills, it releases methane, which scientists think is a greenhouse gas.It's also a massive waste of money.Buy less, store it better, use it up, compost it, pass it on to friends, freeze it, dry it, make stock out of it, find someone with chickens (they eat pretty much any plant product other than potato peels), get worm composting going in your kitchen (no, it doesn't smell).There are far more responsible options than throwing away food gleefully and thinking it's no big deal to do so.