Comments on: The clean plate club http://calinazaret.net/the-clean-plate-club ramblings of a california nazarene girl Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:45:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Migy http://calinazaret.net/the-clean-plate-club/comment-page-1#comment-440 Migy Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:34:34 +0000 http://calinazaret.net/?p=235#comment-440 This week doesn't seem like it'll work out too well. Maybe next weekend. We'll see what we can do for that. This week doesn’t seem like it’ll work out too well. Maybe next weekend. We’ll see what we can do for that.

]]> By: Calinazaret http://calinazaret.net/the-clean-plate-club/comment-page-1#comment-439 Calinazaret Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:54:47 +0000 http://calinazaret.net/?p=235#comment-439 No, you're totally right. I thought about it and realized that even if every American cut their food intake by two-thirds, the food industry is so powerful and utterly set in its ways it would probably not change at all. That, or they'd lobby congress to pass a law requiring us to eat more. Have you seen that new documentary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc." rel="nofollow">Food, Inc.</a>? It's kind of horrifying. All I have to say is don't watch it while you're eating dinner. (It was almost as bad as the time I inadvertently ate a plate of spaghetti while watching the most recent Saw movie. Never again.) But of course, that's the cynic in me. Still! Even if they continued to produce and waste literally tons of food, it would help us out in the other ways I mentioned. So, are you free on Sunday? Brennan, David and I are planning on going for a hike. Maybe we can make soup too? Or perhaps next weekend? No, you’re totally right. I thought about it and realized that even if every American cut their food intake by two-thirds, the food industry is so powerful and utterly set in its ways it would probably not change at all. That, or they’d lobby congress to pass a law requiring us to eat more. Have you seen that new documentary Food, Inc.? It’s kind of horrifying. All I have to say is don’t watch it while you’re eating dinner. (It was almost as bad as the time I inadvertently ate a plate of spaghetti while watching the most recent Saw movie. Never again.) But of course, that’s the cynic in me.

Still! Even if they continued to produce and waste literally tons of food, it would help us out in the other ways I mentioned.

So, are you free on Sunday? Brennan, David and I are planning on going for a hike. Maybe we can make soup too? Or perhaps next weekend?

]]> By: Migy http://calinazaret.net/the-clean-plate-club/comment-page-1#comment-437 Migy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:37:37 +0000 http://calinazaret.net/?p=235#comment-437 Well you know, in some cultures you're expected to leave some food on your plate to show you're done eating and if you clean your plate it shows you want more. Also I think cleaning the plate comes more from lower income families where wasting food is a bigger deal. Now, since the mid range income level has increased over the last few years, they have more food, but that core idea of not wasting food is still there. As far as saving food, we as a country already produce more food than we consume. A lot of which just goes to waste, and some farmers are actually paid to not harvest crops because they can't do anything with the food. It's not so much that we don't have the resources to feed other starving countries (or our own starving homeless) so much as a lack of funds to move the food where it needs to be. As far as restaurants, from my experience and what I've seen, it seems that typically, the less expensive a restaurant is, the more food they give you. I know that seems kind of weird, but it does have some truth to it. Now, I'm not sure how accurate a lot of that information is as most of it is stuff I've just heard around. So it could just be the ranting of a funny little man. XD <3 Well you know, in some cultures you’re expected to leave some food on your plate to show you’re done eating and if you clean your plate it shows you want more. Also I think cleaning the plate comes more from lower income families where wasting food is a bigger deal. Now, since the mid range income level has increased over the last few years, they have more food, but that core idea of not wasting food is still there.

As far as saving food, we as a country already produce more food than we consume. A lot of which just goes to waste, and some farmers are actually paid to not harvest crops because they can’t do anything with the food. It’s not so much that we don’t have the resources to feed other starving countries (or our own starving homeless) so much as a lack of funds to move the food where it needs to be. As far as restaurants, from my experience and what I’ve seen, it seems that typically, the less expensive a restaurant is, the more food they give you. I know that seems kind of weird, but it does have some truth to it. Now, I’m not sure how accurate a lot of that information is as most of it is stuff I’ve just heard around. So it could just be the ranting of a funny little man. XD <3

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