http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021148400Oh my.
Sherman A1 (9,241 posts)
Americans Guilty About Food Waste: Survey
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — When it comes to their efforts to help the environment, Americans feel the most guilt about wasting food, according to a new survey.
The survey, called Eco Pulse, found that 39% of Americans feel guilty about “wasting food.†In comparison, only 7% felt guilty about “not sticking to an energy-efficient thermostat setting,†and just 6% felt guilty about “using chemical lawn or plant fertilizers.†The survey was conducted by the Shelton Group here.
“This is an issue that gets right to the core of who we are as Americans. We were all taught to waste not, want not, and trained that wasting food equals being a bad person,†said Suzanne Shelton, founder and chief executive officer of the Shelton Group, in a statement. “Yet the average household throws out 470 pounds of food every year, making it the largest component in our nation’s landfills. So I’m afraid we have plenty to feel guilty about.â€
Read More: http://supermarketnews.com/consumer-trends/americans-guilty-about-food-waste-survey#ixzz23n4fxzJN
Tunkamerica (4,041 posts)
1. a compost bin/heap is so easy. And then you need less or no fertilizers for your yard.
2 birds. 1 battery.
Nuclear Unicorn (5,596 posts)
8. Is that even possible in (sub)urban environs?
My husband and I have chickens so we give them our table scraps and whatnot but we live in the country.
Zoning and other laws/rules may prohibit owning chickens or composting in more built-up areas.
Also, if I may be indulged in a moment of bragging -- When I lived in the city with my college roommate she and I threw out around 90 gallons of trash a week. Since I moved to the coiuntry after getting married we hardly fill-up a pair of 32 gallon cans and that's with my husband's on-going renovation work generating trash.
If franksolich may be involved in a moment of bragging, franksolich fills up two of those little plastic grocery bags with trash each week.
franksolich is very green, but the primitives still don't like him.
exboyfil (2,321 posts)
2. A huge part of that waste are school lunches
You would be amazed at what gets thrown away. When I ate lunch at the elementary school with my daughters on Good Friday. According to my daughter the food offerings at her High School now have gotten so bad that she will pack a lunch in (also the lunchroom is so crowded that she had to sit on the floor to eat her lunch). They blamed the change in the lunch menu on Mrs. Obama's new iniative. I don't know if that is fair, but they took away the salad bar options from my daughter.
Le Taz Hot (12,314 posts)
3. "Mrs. Obama's 'new initiative'?"
Who is "they" and are they aware that Mrs. Obama doesn't issue initiatives? If I were a parent at that school I think I'd be raising holy hell about:
1) spreading misinformation,
2) politicizing in a public school, and
3) taking away healthy choices.
exboyfil (2,321 posts)
5. I plan to ask my daughter to pursue it for her Broadcast Journalism class. I am not saying it is the case. I think it is obviously wrong and that is why I attributed it to someone saying it to her. Yesterday was her first day of school. The school just had to absorb a number of students from a lab school that closed, and it was already packed.
lunatica (24,030 posts)
4. How funny since Michelle grows and promotes salad gardens which are eaten in the White House every day and at State dinners.
Why bring that kind of vague misinformation here? Michelle Obama has dedicated a good portion of her time as First Lady to nutrition and physical activity specifically aimed at people your daughter's age.
DiverDave (3,333 posts)
6. The only folks that waste food are the ones that always had it.
We grew up without alot.
I hate throwing out food.
Just seems wrong,somehow.
franksolich lives way out in the middle of nowhere, where from 1875 until 1985, the place was inhabited by prolific gardeners. The twenty years this place was vacant (until I moved here), the gardens--there's three of them--continued to naturally propagate every year.
As franksolich loathes and detests gardening, he leaves it be, letting nature do its own thing.
Excepting this year--because of the Great Barack Drought of '12, the hottest and driest summer in Nebraska since 1821 or something--all sorts of things grow in lush promiscuity, and others actually come out here to take some of the stuff. (franksolich buys his fresh fruits and vegetables at the grocery store in town; easier, cleaner, quicker, and no mess.)
