Vitally important issue. Misdirected and misused resources, squandered for profit and conditioned preferences. Most of this out of sight and out of mind for a huge majority of people, but so important to consider deeply.
Waste (of nearly everything) is a huge bane and failing of the current system.
I agree hole-heartedly with Inverted Reality. Would like to add that if food was produced in the natural non-toxic way it would cost more, so people would buy less of it and it would actually be nutritious, so a person would need to eat much less of it than the mass-produced crap today to feel sated. In our family we grow a garden and raise our own animals for eggs and meat. We have very little waste which all goes to the animals or on the garden for compost. I also make all our breads and such from grain that we grind ourselves. Before I cook it I either ferment the flour or sprout the grain, so it takes a lot of time and extra efforts to produce healthy food. I often think that if the majority of people in the US all of a sudden realized how toxic the food in supermarkets is and decided to eat healthy there would be a famine. It makes me so sick to see the endless sea of corn and soybean fields, millions of acres of toxic crap that feeds all the animals raised in confinement to produce nutritionally depleted eggs, dairy and cancerous meat. All of these fields need to be seeded with a variety of natural grasses and turned into pasture for cows and sheep and the vast woodlands need to become pasture for hogs. All the production of desease generating vegetable oils needs to cease and be replaced with butter, lard and tallow. None of this will happen until the public realizes that the food they buy cheap and so much of is killing them.
The massive rise of industrial food has made us all fatter and sicker and continues to degrade the environment. We must return to more responsibility and local control, raising food for ourselves and our communities. It’s all part of breaking free of the Sickness Industrial Complex! It’s wonderful that you are personally doing so much!
Thank you for highlighting this most important aspect to a dire situation, I look forward to reading your new book. Dissolving Illusions is a remarkable tome.
Then to think most of that 'food' is not even food, it is ultra processed crap. Enriched with synthetic vitamins, containing toxic oils, artificial flavours/colours etc. You could almost call it 'toxic waste'.
Where I live, there is almost no ultra processed food (only cakes/bread). I think about 95% of the food waste (if there is any) is composted or eaten by pigs. In such a case, a bit of waste is not a big problem, in the case of the 'developed' countries, it is a very big problem. Massive amounts of toxic food-like substances (as you correctly put it) piled together with plastics and other waste.
When I was growing up, there was some of this junk food, and I certainly ate it as a kid, but now it’s insane. Stores are filled with garbage, and people are continuously barraged with buying this junk in between big pharma advertisements. We’ve traded convenience for health and freedom.
Because of allergies I completely overhauled my diet about 20 years ago. I started with cutting out artificial flavours, then went all organic, keto, intermittent fasting and now I do OMAD. But that first step of cutting out artificial flavours, 20 years ago, made me disregard about 95% of products in the supermarket. Best decision I have ever made!
An important read, thank you Roman. In Canada with the ever increasing cost of food, my guess is people are being less wasteful. Overall, I do see an indifference towards food wastage. It is truly disconcerting, in 2024 we still have hungry people on this planet. It is a great spiritual disgrace.
I keep wondering about all the food being stored in homes in prepping for disaster. Most of it will probably never be eaten but meanwhile it is harvested, canned or whatever, and sold, skewing the numbers of what Americans really need to live on a daily basis. Thanks for your research and writing.
Everyone serves too much! Just look at the size of modern day plates. Children at all times must have snacks and bottles of water….. devious marketing.
A concise (not wasteful) piece on a topic much ignored. To me, the issue is partly embedded in the commercialization of farms and the food supply. I ardently defend tossing the picturesque but inedible, or offering to animals or a compost heap.
A solution might be to choose more carefully, buy less impulsively — and to remember prior experiences (a kind of intelligence).
It is all about maximizing profits with minimal efforts, thus misusing math. Also, crop failures due to weather conditions is a disaster, but wasting food in a massive way isn't a disaster but only the consequence of the outcome of using mathematical modelling. A so called pandemic disease is a disaster but the consequences of fighting the disease, also according the outcome of math modelling.
Vitally important issue. Misdirected and misused resources, squandered for profit and conditioned preferences. Most of this out of sight and out of mind for a huge majority of people, but so important to consider deeply.
Waste (of nearly everything) is a huge bane and failing of the current system.
Those who eat carnivore waste almost nothing. I can say that from personal experience, having adopted a carnivore lifestyle seven months ago.
I agree hole-heartedly with Inverted Reality. Would like to add that if food was produced in the natural non-toxic way it would cost more, so people would buy less of it and it would actually be nutritious, so a person would need to eat much less of it than the mass-produced crap today to feel sated. In our family we grow a garden and raise our own animals for eggs and meat. We have very little waste which all goes to the animals or on the garden for compost. I also make all our breads and such from grain that we grind ourselves. Before I cook it I either ferment the flour or sprout the grain, so it takes a lot of time and extra efforts to produce healthy food. I often think that if the majority of people in the US all of a sudden realized how toxic the food in supermarkets is and decided to eat healthy there would be a famine. It makes me so sick to see the endless sea of corn and soybean fields, millions of acres of toxic crap that feeds all the animals raised in confinement to produce nutritionally depleted eggs, dairy and cancerous meat. All of these fields need to be seeded with a variety of natural grasses and turned into pasture for cows and sheep and the vast woodlands need to become pasture for hogs. All the production of desease generating vegetable oils needs to cease and be replaced with butter, lard and tallow. None of this will happen until the public realizes that the food they buy cheap and so much of is killing them.
The massive rise of industrial food has made us all fatter and sicker and continues to degrade the environment. We must return to more responsibility and local control, raising food for ourselves and our communities. It’s all part of breaking free of the Sickness Industrial Complex! It’s wonderful that you are personally doing so much!
Thank you for highlighting this most important aspect to a dire situation, I look forward to reading your new book. Dissolving Illusions is a remarkable tome.
Then to think most of that 'food' is not even food, it is ultra processed crap. Enriched with synthetic vitamins, containing toxic oils, artificial flavours/colours etc. You could almost call it 'toxic waste'.
Food-like substances are what I refer to them. These things are to excite the taste buds and sell products, but no one should eat them!
Where I live, there is almost no ultra processed food (only cakes/bread). I think about 95% of the food waste (if there is any) is composted or eaten by pigs. In such a case, a bit of waste is not a big problem, in the case of the 'developed' countries, it is a very big problem. Massive amounts of toxic food-like substances (as you correctly put it) piled together with plastics and other waste.
Developed, my ass.
When I was growing up, there was some of this junk food, and I certainly ate it as a kid, but now it’s insane. Stores are filled with garbage, and people are continuously barraged with buying this junk in between big pharma advertisements. We’ve traded convenience for health and freedom.
Because of allergies I completely overhauled my diet about 20 years ago. I started with cutting out artificial flavours, then went all organic, keto, intermittent fasting and now I do OMAD. But that first step of cutting out artificial flavours, 20 years ago, made me disregard about 95% of products in the supermarket. Best decision I have ever made!
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An important read, thank you Roman. In Canada with the ever increasing cost of food, my guess is people are being less wasteful. Overall, I do see an indifference towards food wastage. It is truly disconcerting, in 2024 we still have hungry people on this planet. It is a great spiritual disgrace.
I keep wondering about all the food being stored in homes in prepping for disaster. Most of it will probably never be eaten but meanwhile it is harvested, canned or whatever, and sold, skewing the numbers of what Americans really need to live on a daily basis. Thanks for your research and writing.
Restaurants serve too much.
Everyone serves too much! Just look at the size of modern day plates. Children at all times must have snacks and bottles of water….. devious marketing.
Yup! I talked about that in the book and in this article. https://romanbystrianyk.substack.com/p/sickness-inc
A concise (not wasteful) piece on a topic much ignored. To me, the issue is partly embedded in the commercialization of farms and the food supply. I ardently defend tossing the picturesque but inedible, or offering to animals or a compost heap.
A solution might be to choose more carefully, buy less impulsively — and to remember prior experiences (a kind of intelligence).
Is it possible to buy your new book, “Moving back from midnight” from any source other than Amazon?
Unfortunately, not yet. It's on my to-do list to get it onto IngramSpark and perhaps another location. Thanks for your interest!
It is all about maximizing profits with minimal efforts, thus misusing math. Also, crop failures due to weather conditions is a disaster, but wasting food in a massive way isn't a disaster but only the consequence of the outcome of using mathematical modelling. A so called pandemic disease is a disaster but the consequences of fighting the disease, also according the outcome of math modelling.
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