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Why world leaders are eating 'landfill salad' and cucumber-butt pickles
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/opinions/sutter-food-waste-two-degrees/index.html
Excerpts from the article:
...Wasting food is a massive, unnecessary contributor to global warming, and not too many people seem to be talking about it...
"In the United States we throw away around 40% of what we produce; and globally, 28% of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills..."
"...Not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering...."
"landfill salad," made with vegetable scraps and ingredients that were disfigured to the point grocery stores would toss them out; bread made from spent grains that are a byproduct of beer brewing; a burger made with pulp that a juice company otherwise would have thrown away; misshapen-beet ketchup; cucumber-butt pickles; and "corn fries" made from super-starchy corn that's meant to be fed to cattle. Yum! Eat up!"
"...Food production and agriculture contribute as much to climate change as transportation..."
"...more than a third of all food produced worldwide -- over 1 billion tons of edible food each year -- goes to waste. That is shameful when so many people suffer from hunger. It's incredibly shameful."
If you total up the climate change pollution created by the production of wasted or rotten food, you get more annual greenhouse gases than those from all of Russia or India.
Landfill Salad comes from here:
Cesar Zuniga, operations manager at the Salinas Valley municipal dump in California, points to salad greens that still have two weeks before their sell-by date. "Some loads ... look very fresh," Zuniga says. "We question, wow, why is this being tossed?"
Okay, this is my second climate change post this week. My first one was made on Tuesday and can be found here:
https://pensacoladiscussion.forumotion.com/t21815-climate-change-proponents-want-to-take-away-your-hamburgers
Both of these posts review articles by CNN's John D. Sutter, who writes on climate change.
In his earlier article, Sutter exhorts us to stop eating beef, and to stop supporting animal farming and corn farming. He says both contribute massively to CO2 production.
My first post garnered about 26 views and one comment by poster pkrbm. When I saw this second article by Sutter, I said to myself: "This is worth a new posting about climate change."
Admittedly, I count myself among this forum's climate change deniers. While I do not necessarily believe in the politics shared by posters pkrbm, Markle, Obamasucks, and Teotwaki; on climate change I guess I am with them by default. Now, the climate change proponents here do not pick on me like they do the others... However, in their defense, I feel I must bring Mr. Sutter's articles to everyone's attention, so the climate change proponents can start putting his ideas into practice, and then share the results with the rest of us...... After all, this is the direction the climate change political arm is pointing society, so its theories need testing in order to bring the rest of us along.
Therefore, since you all need to stop eating beef and corn products, you also need to stop wasting food. This means that the leftover food in your refrigerators, so long as it is remotely edible (i.e., only slightly spoiled, stale, or moldy), instead of those food calories going down the disposal or in the garbage, those food calories need to come out of someone's ass. Food needs to be eaten until it is gone, no matter how tired you are of consuming it, or how tasteless or unappealing it seems. The upside is your collective grocery bills should recede somewhat....
Therefore, when you go to Publix to shop, you should purposely buy nearly expired food instead of fresh food. You buy lettuce that is wilty, but still edible, fruits and veges that are blemished, bananas that are soft, dairy products that are close to being expired (my wife always throws food out on the expiration date--I remind her the manufacturer always states 'good for one week after expiration'), bread that is stale. Us deniers will continue buying the fresh stuff, while you keep the stale food from being sent to the landfill--and turned into climate destroying methane.
Boards: I admire you for being a culinary expert. The photos you have posted on this forum concerning your barbecue wonders make me wish you were my neighbor.
Can you please concoct a Landfill Salad for the posters at large and post photos showing how you made it here?
Also, since you will hopefully be giving up eating meats (if you read Sutter's other article, there is not much meat production that isn't a danger to climate change), you will need to concoct some other meatless barbecue recipes that you can share with us.
Speaking of barbecues.... We all need to switch from CO2-spewing gas and charcoal grills to electric grills like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Meco-Aussie-Deluxe-Electric-Rotisserie/dp/B0007XXNT0/ref=sr_1_11?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1443716285&sr=1-11&keywords=electric+grill
I happen to be an Amazon Associate who has been looking for new website ideas, and I just found it with this product... I will make a climate change themed website that convinces visitors to give up their old fossil-fueled grills for these new electric ones. My site will point them to Amazon.com, and if they convert a sale, I get paid a commission..... Well, the upside from this is I will finally have to learn more about climate change (I wonder if my new site will pay off better than my old sites have... hmmm... doubtful, but I will gamble on it anyway.... :-]).
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/opinions/sutter-food-waste-two-degrees/index.html
Excerpts from the article:
...Wasting food is a massive, unnecessary contributor to global warming, and not too many people seem to be talking about it...
"In the United States we throw away around 40% of what we produce; and globally, 28% of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills..."
"...Not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering...."
"landfill salad," made with vegetable scraps and ingredients that were disfigured to the point grocery stores would toss them out; bread made from spent grains that are a byproduct of beer brewing; a burger made with pulp that a juice company otherwise would have thrown away; misshapen-beet ketchup; cucumber-butt pickles; and "corn fries" made from super-starchy corn that's meant to be fed to cattle. Yum! Eat up!"
"...Food production and agriculture contribute as much to climate change as transportation..."
"...more than a third of all food produced worldwide -- over 1 billion tons of edible food each year -- goes to waste. That is shameful when so many people suffer from hunger. It's incredibly shameful."
If you total up the climate change pollution created by the production of wasted or rotten food, you get more annual greenhouse gases than those from all of Russia or India.
Landfill Salad comes from here:
Cesar Zuniga, operations manager at the Salinas Valley municipal dump in California, points to salad greens that still have two weeks before their sell-by date. "Some loads ... look very fresh," Zuniga says. "We question, wow, why is this being tossed?"
Okay, this is my second climate change post this week. My first one was made on Tuesday and can be found here:
https://pensacoladiscussion.forumotion.com/t21815-climate-change-proponents-want-to-take-away-your-hamburgers
Both of these posts review articles by CNN's John D. Sutter, who writes on climate change.
In his earlier article, Sutter exhorts us to stop eating beef, and to stop supporting animal farming and corn farming. He says both contribute massively to CO2 production.
My first post garnered about 26 views and one comment by poster pkrbm. When I saw this second article by Sutter, I said to myself: "This is worth a new posting about climate change."
Admittedly, I count myself among this forum's climate change deniers. While I do not necessarily believe in the politics shared by posters pkrbm, Markle, Obamasucks, and Teotwaki; on climate change I guess I am with them by default. Now, the climate change proponents here do not pick on me like they do the others... However, in their defense, I feel I must bring Mr. Sutter's articles to everyone's attention, so the climate change proponents can start putting his ideas into practice, and then share the results with the rest of us...... After all, this is the direction the climate change political arm is pointing society, so its theories need testing in order to bring the rest of us along.
Therefore, since you all need to stop eating beef and corn products, you also need to stop wasting food. This means that the leftover food in your refrigerators, so long as it is remotely edible (i.e., only slightly spoiled, stale, or moldy), instead of those food calories going down the disposal or in the garbage, those food calories need to come out of someone's ass. Food needs to be eaten until it is gone, no matter how tired you are of consuming it, or how tasteless or unappealing it seems. The upside is your collective grocery bills should recede somewhat....
Therefore, when you go to Publix to shop, you should purposely buy nearly expired food instead of fresh food. You buy lettuce that is wilty, but still edible, fruits and veges that are blemished, bananas that are soft, dairy products that are close to being expired (my wife always throws food out on the expiration date--I remind her the manufacturer always states 'good for one week after expiration'), bread that is stale. Us deniers will continue buying the fresh stuff, while you keep the stale food from being sent to the landfill--and turned into climate destroying methane.
Boards: I admire you for being a culinary expert. The photos you have posted on this forum concerning your barbecue wonders make me wish you were my neighbor.
Can you please concoct a Landfill Salad for the posters at large and post photos showing how you made it here?Also, since you will hopefully be giving up eating meats (if you read Sutter's other article, there is not much meat production that isn't a danger to climate change), you will need to concoct some other meatless barbecue recipes that you can share with us.
Speaking of barbecues.... We all need to switch from CO2-spewing gas and charcoal grills to electric grills like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/Meco-Aussie-Deluxe-Electric-Rotisserie/dp/B0007XXNT0/ref=sr_1_11?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1443716285&sr=1-11&keywords=electric+grill
I happen to be an Amazon Associate who has been looking for new website ideas, and I just found it with this product... I will make a climate change themed website that convinces visitors to give up their old fossil-fueled grills for these new electric ones. My site will point them to Amazon.com, and if they convert a sale, I get paid a commission..... Well, the upside from this is I will finally have to learn more about climate change (I wonder if my new site will pay off better than my old sites have... hmmm... doubtful, but I will gamble on it anyway.... :-]).
