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If you had 100% of produced food being eaten, wouldn't that be very, very risky? What if there's a small drought?
by Strilanc 14y ago
If you had 100% of produced food being eaten, wouldn't that be very, very risky? What if there's a small drought?
- danneu 14y agoHouseholds could approach 0% waste just by caring enough to preserve food. But, as the article says, food is so cheap that most people just don't care. In other words, it's not risky because food preservation is so embedded in our society from the production process to the cheap appliances in our households. Your worry makes more sense if our food lasted just days. Instead, it can last years.
- drone 14y agoAgreed, "not wasting" does not always equate "eating." Preservation is something, when I spent a lot of time in my childhood in rural areas, that was baked into every family. It was a way of smoothing out the seasonal fluctuations in food availability. Now, having lived in the city for quite some time - food preservation is a "niche hobby." I posit this is because fresh produce importing from other parts of the world have really smoothed out the availability. But, we won't eat much of the fruit from other countries - largely because we find it wasteful (transportation) and of suspicious quality (both taste and health).