Re: [fast5] Re: Throwing food away

 

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:29 AM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@yahoo.com> wrote:

The excess food either goes to waste or waist!
;-)

Or to the chickens! A person with chickens never has to worry about what to do with leftovers ... My issue nowadays isn't so much with throwing food out, as that when you eat "whole" food (such as corn on the cob, or harvest a cabbage) there is a fair bit of waste just in cleaning the food. We end up with stems, ends, shells, bones etc. One meal I made, there was a huge bowl of the "other parts" that weren't edible. So we've made all those part of our food cycle also.

For those who can't raise chickens ... I've started raising Phoenix worms (aka black soldier fly larvae) and they sure love leftovers too, plus they'll eat anything that went bad in the fridge. And the bugs make great chicken, fish, or bird feeder food. I'm actually growing them in a little container on my desk: they don't take up the space you need for say, a worm bin.

So one of my issues now is that when I go have dinner with someone else, I keep wanting to take home all the food waste rather than see it go down the garbage disposal or into their trash. It doesn't bother me so much that the kid or adult didn't eat it ... but it does bother me to see it tossed in with all the other trash. (OK, it decomposes fine in landfills, but just think of how happy it would make the chicken!).

 

 

 

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