RE: Consumers & Businesses Waste 40% of the Food Produced in the US
Just think of all the people going to work at a job 5 days a week (who likely wouldn't be doing that job if they weren't getting paid to do it), working upwards of 40-60 hours a week, have only two weeks out of their entire year to do what they want--taking a vacation from their life they return to after their short relaxation time is through--they wake up to alarm clocks everyday, sit in traffic, can't wait for Friday, hate Monday,, spend hours getting ready and shopping for clothes to be appropriate, are stressed out, overweight, on medications, just waiting to get home for a beer in front of the television. They have little time for growing food or even cooking for that matter. All of that for the necessities of food and shelter. Hmmmmm...interesting they never teach children in school how to provide those two things for themselves, only how to earn money so they can pay and not have to be engaged in the process. Sounds like a lot of life energy to get what is already readily available abundantly but being wasted. Thank you @quinneaker for helping the world see how ridiculously we spend our energy and for creating the example of how simple it can be. Grateful for the abundance we harvest at the Garden of Eden from all that waste. And oh, that's an incredible percentage--I suppose I'm not really surprised!
There are people selling entire hours of their precious, limited life in order to buy a block of cheese!
There's already more than enough of everything. Not everyone has to grow the food; we can agree that the people who enjoy that can do so, and the others who value it can make some kind of fair trade or contribution to partake in the abundance. We can find a way to make a healthier and more sustainable world for ALL!