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Originally Posted by boo boo
If the world is destined to die it's beause of our own will, and that of course is no excuse not to do anything about it.
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it was marvin g
aye, I was trying to derail the thread.
I still believe the world is screwed. It's cliche, but the amount of food we throw away could probably feed entire third world countries.It's an accepted and standard business practice for 7-eleven, safeway, and pretty much every major franchise involved in food, to throw away huge quantities of food. At my job for one, if we don't meet our mandatory food writeoff amount , we get written up...just in case, god forbid, a customer walks in and doesn't find his particular sandwich on the shelf....
...another freaky thing is that certain types of staple seeds..like corn are being bio-engineered to be self-terminating by companies like cargill...breeding entire species of animals for profit, rather than to meet the nutritional needs of a single community..growing a ****load of corn to feed those animals and not people...and having a third of that meat thrown out by fast food chains to ensure that some fat **** can have his cheeseburger when he wants it.
I think treating the essentials of life like food and water as mass-produced commodities is what's going to screw us over in the long run.