According to the article, "Nearly 46,000 tons, or 31% of Lane County’s total solid landfill waste, is made up of food waste, according to reporting done by the Register Guard this year. Jesselyn Perkins, project coordinator for the Waste to Taste program, says that Waste to Taste receives tens of thousands of pounds of recycled food."
It's uplifting to hear of a volunteer-run program that is making such a positive difference in the community.
Read the full article HERE: Feeding Lane County
"In the heart of surrender, treating people far better than they treat
you becomes an acceptable way to live, especially because their
inability to treat you well has nothing to do with you, but reflects the
kind of relationship they have with themselves.
This allows you
to forget how to be a victim, when the unconscious actions of another
clearly reveal a heart in need and a lost child in pain."
Matt Kahn
All for Love
This is an excellent, balanced article about the pros and cons of a world of vegetarians or vegans. Though the benefits to personal and planetary health would be unequivocal if people in "developed" countries adopted these lifestyle choices, there would be challenges to people who make a living from the current style of raising meat for mass consumption. There would need to be a transition to shift to other livelihoods. For indigenous cultures, and those cultures dependent on shepherding, nomadic lifestyles, the change would probably lead to worse health outcomes in the short-run and a tragic loss of culture so a shift of this manner would take much more time and coordination. In the long-run though, this shift would also create much benefit for bio-diversity and even personal health.
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