The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65002   Message #1068678
Posted By: Bill D
09-Dec-03 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: food
Subject: RE: BS: food
guest...sure, it would be nice if portions were reasonable in restaurants, and if unused food could be routed to those in need. (It is done in places...restaurants & wholesalers donate to homless shelters, etc., in Wash DC and elsewhere)...I encourage this wherever it can be done.

But distribution plans and smaller protions simply will NOT solve any serious long-terms problems. Anyone who thinks so just has not truly done the math and realized the scope of the problem.

There ARE simply too many people for the state of the environment to handle...fisheries are disappearing, farmland is being turned into parking lots, various diseases and blights are affecting grains all over the world...and STILL we (the world in general) breed faster than we can cope.

I am over 60 now, and I may not live to see the worst of it, but if you are 20-30, you WILL see famines and social upheaval as a result....first in the 3rd world, but ripple effects right at your doorstep that you will NOT like.

You don't have to believe me....all you have to do is wait.