Friday, August 14, 2015

Food Foolish Files #3: Summer 2015 Update

I call it the "Diaper Syndrome." It works like this.

You get married and are going along just fine when one day your wife announces she's pregnant.  On your drive to work the next day you see a billboard for diapers.  First time everMust have been erected the night before.  Then a bus goes by and it has a diaper ad on its side.  Weird.  And then there's a lady at the park who is diapering her baby.  Do people diaper babies outside? 

Then, of course, you make the mistake of typing “we’re going to have a baby” in a Gmail to a friend and you are inundated with on-line ads for diapers.

Been there?  Who knew anyone thought about diapers that much?

Well that's exactly what’s happened with Food Foolish.  John Mandyck and I researched and wrote about food waste and its connection to hunger and climate change.  Now, everywhere I look, I see, well--food waste.  Or more importantly, people, organizations and countries trying to solve the issue of waste food. 

I've been keeping a log of clippings, and here's just a few you might find interesting.