Trish Chard

I cried through most of this film. It is soooo terribly sad what some people have to do to feed their children
and incredibly tragic how we as paying consumers, just throw away and waste our food as well!!

Dee

I definitely understand the “waste not want not” mentality Stephanie, and how it can do great harm to kids lifelong eating habits ~ the opposite of those who die from starvation. What I refer to mainly, is the over-eating and over-abundance of the “have” countries, who need to take a good look at the sources, processes, and ultimate use of our food supply, and re-evaluated the entire thing, while teaching our children to treat food with a healthy respect. That is woefully missing in our society today.

I also find it somewhat distressing that the Food Banks are rejecting so much of what they receive, unfortunately, to avoid being sued, by an increasingly litigious society. But seriously, is it really necessary to DUMP all canned goods with a small dent, boxes that might be a bit squished and many many other donations simply because the ‘best before date’ iis not perfectly legible? Thousands of pounds of perfectly edible food is thrown out EVERY week by all Foodbanks for such superficial reasons, while disclaimers could simply be signed by the recipients. Many of these people would gladly accept good food with imperfect packaging, given the choice. I don’t understand what you mean when you say it is a necessary evil right now. I don’t see it as ever being acceptable or excusable. Especially when OVEReating is a choice. Starvation in have-not countries isn’t.

Dee

Point taken, Stephanie.
Still, this wasteful mentality will never change unless and until people CHOOSE to make that change, on an individual and ultimately global level. Wasting food and water must become as UNacceptable as smoking has become here. I feel that this is actually possible, now more than ever before, thru initiatives like Daily Challenge and many others ~ both on and off line.

People can no longer deny that we have too much, while others have too little, without lying to themselves. We have been aware of this tragic imbalance for decades but still, so little has changed. Just as those without are dying from starvation, those with too much are dying from overindulgence (diseases of obesity). It is the attitude of complacency and even entitlement by so many that I find difficult to fathom. People, especially children die every second of every day for lack of food and clean water, and still those with so much fail to value it, and mindlessly waste food, that should be feeding all those without. To me ~ it’s unconscionable.

Lenore Mulneix

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Quinn Kensey

Did you know we are killing ourselves slowly? Everyday we dump tons of plastic bags into our be loving Mother Earth. The conscious is like Karma. We did something bad to the earth and we will get it back. Look at the lakes, rivers and underground water near the dumping areas. The toxics of these plastic bags are leaking out. There are no way to stop the toxic leakage unless we stop dumping more in the ground. Stop using plastic bags and start using green supply bags. Cheap and last a long time.