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Is Food Waste Really Your Problem?
If you’re of a certain age, especially growing up in Heartland, USA, you heard these words from a parent at the dinner table while growing up: “Clean your plate. There are starving kids in China.”
That wasn’t wrong. Millions died from starvation during Chairman Mao’s Communist cultural revolution in China during the 1960s and early ’70s. It’s a sordid tale. The “Great Leap Forward,” Mao called it. To the grave, perhaps.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your ocean grow?
I have experienced zero ill effects from watching “How It’s Made” videos on sausage.
Our backyard septic system is located far enough from our garden that it won’t help provide fertilizer for growing food while I’m still alive.
That sounds vaguely familiar, now that you type it.
That would help explain the methane, too. There is a landfill in our county that I ride past occasionally. Sometimes the gas smell downwind is pretty bad. It’s probably not the methane itself, but other gasses that are also the product of anaerobic digestion.
To my understanding there’s aerobic bacteria and anaerobic bacteria. Aerobic bacteria does it’s thing in oxygen rich environments, and anaerobic is suited to oxygen poor. If you put (green) food waste in a compost heap it will quickly breakdown into loam because a compost heap is a highly oxygenated environment, but it it goes in a landfill, it will tend to ferment and putrefy because of the lack of oxygen.
My mom introduced me to the difference between best by (aka guaranteed quality) and expired (aka dangerous to use) early. We tend to keep our pantry and fridge lean, so most stuff doesn’t get a chance to expire. I did throw away a few packages of tofu the other day on the theory that if we’ve had it since the Bush administration, we aren’t going eat it even if it was still good to eat.
Throwing away tofu is its own reward.