if there’s evil in this world,
It is the throwing away of perfectly good food
In Houston, we had dinner which was great n I also got a PB+J to save n eat later. I coverd the plate with a napkin, playd a set, and when I came off my food was gone. They threw an UNTOUCHD sandwich in the trash.
Las nite the caterers made amazing couscous w curry veggies and I had three servings thru the nite. As it got late I went back for more and it was all filling the garbage.
I’m not upset that I didn’t get t eat, I’m sad that we’re wasteful. Ridiculously wasteful. Those woulda been the best leftovers ever, for two or three days! But we have one go at a dish and as soon as it cools down we just flush it…
I don’t mean to make a point but dammit I’m hungry now, and thinkin that this country is throwin so much of its energy and productivity right out makes me sick. Not to mention when meat is thrown away, someone died for nothing.
Food!
I heard an interview on the radio with a man that was held captive in a foreign country. His story was very intense and emotional. It might’ve been on the BBC because I remember his voice telling the story.
He described that when he was released and returned to New York his friends took him out to a restaurant in celebration of his safe return.
During the dinner he went to use the rest room and when he was walking back to the table he walked by the kitchen and saw them scraping plates of uneaten food.
He described himself having an absolute breakdown right there…confronting the kitchen staff why they were throwing out perfectly good food.
That humbled me.
We have no idea what a consumerative, wasteful,
taking everything for granted society that we are…
let alone all of the health laws that we have set in
place where none of that good food can be touched.
I was in a convenience store late at night and they were doing inventory of perishable goods.
This meant that they were going through salads and sandwiches with a scanner and just throwing shit in the trash.
I asked the woman…
“Don’t you donate this to a homeless shelter or a food bank?”
Her response was
“No!”
I wrote a letter to their corporate office.
That’s fucked up!
I. With leftovers crammed in pipes waiting to explode beneath the ocean,
The oilman feeds his privileged dogs.
Nature evidences it, it’s true, we’ve been wasteful as evil took on this shape.
II. Our wealth was made to multiply, infinite and inconsumable, never to rest.
But we’re crash-bound without rest. Without return on expense, without sense,
without a fence to keep us in check, without law, without a flaw kept unfixed.
III. Many must die for nothing,
The animals must pay in loose change and their meaty breasts.
I am upset that you didn’t get to eat,
That many more could have been fed.