[Biofuel] Food waste and Leaping for $1.50

2004-12-16 Thread mkmiller
This has been on my mind since my mother first scolded me for not finishing my vegetables. But how, in a global economy, does my improved efficiency of food use get one extra meal to someone outside of my local market? By the time the products are available for me to consume they are already

Re: [Biofuel] Food waste and Leaping for $1.50

2004-12-16 Thread Lyle Estill
It's not that wasting 1.50 a day worth of food is a given, and that the job is to figure out a way to convert this waste into something meaningful for those who need it. I think you are completely right, hunger is a distribution problem. On one side of the fence, the destitute are

Re: [Biofuel] Food waste and Leaping for $1.50

2004-12-16 Thread Keith Addison
This has been on my mind since my mother first scolded me for not finishing my vegetables. Yes! Think of the starving masses in China. That was the time of the Great Leap Forward. I wonder which poor countries well-meaning parents cudgel their kids with these days. As a kid I caused