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How is it expensive and energy intensive? We just toss compostable veg stuff in a 5-foot diameter wire basket made of field fencing and a few T posts behind the woodshed and turn it with a shovel every few months or so. Till most of it into the garden spot every other year.
 
Food gets grown. Planted by tractors, sprayed with pesticides with tractors or aircraft, sometimes irrigated using a slim water resource, harvested with tractors, shipped in several stages via truck/train/aircraft/ship to the store, then transported to the house. All to made into boutique dirt if it gets thrown out. Huge waste.
 
Good post, CV. What is a worm composter
 
Many mfgs if you search.
Add red worms.
Then just make sure it does not get too hot or cold or flooded wet. Don't add too many acidic things like tomatoes all at once. Red worms double in population every 90 days btw.
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Of course we have stepped that up to an entire 1/8 acre garden. Planting only in organics. The red worms dont like dirt. But they make a very fertile "dirt" properly ph balanced from eating the organics. So the isle walk ways of organics get turned into the beds every year. New woodchips and organics laid back in the walkways. We compost manure and wood chips and leaves etc out side the garden and turn it regular. Good thing we have a mini.
So veggies are planted in 8-12" directly in organics, no dirt. The worms just keep munching away and are everywhere in the garden. Even if we lose some in winter, the eggs hatch and the population re-establishes.
 
lxskllr said:
Food gets grown. Planted by tractors, sprayed with pesticides with tractors or aircraft, sometimes irrigated using a slim water resource, harvested with tractors, shipped in several stages via truck/train/aircraft/ship to the store, then transported to the house. All to made into boutique dirt if it gets thrown out. Huge waste.
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Sure, if it gets thrown out. I took you to mean composting kitchen waste, not wasted food, was expensive, etc. We basically never throw away food. That's the height of ridiculousness :). If it comes into our house, it gets eaten, period. The organic stuff from our kitchen that we put in our compost cage is the parts you don't eat, like banana peels and apple cores.
 
I was riffing off of food waste, and Stephen's comment about composting. Fresh food in my house *will* get wasted; probably more times than not. I don't eat things I'm not in the mood for, and entropy won't wait for me to decide I'm gonna eat something, hence canned and frozen food.

I don't consider throwing out legitimate scraps meaningful waste. Sure, composting is better, but if you ate everything edible without getting crazy about getting every gram, you're doing better than most.
 
Frozen foods usually are quite good, assuming they are not processed to an appreciable degree. Canned foods are the opposite, for most...too much salt is nearly ubiquitous. That's the main reason we seldom buy canned foods.

But you know your habits and preferences...it's clearly better to not waste food.
 
I'm not convinced a high salt intake is bad for the average healthy person, but I could be wrong. I haven't really looked into it. When I got a blood test last year, the tech said my sodium content was low, which surprised me. I feel like I have a high salt diet, but I also sweat a lot, so maybe that's where it goes. I drink a lot of V8, which is a delicious salt bomb, but I guess it goes away well enough :^D
 
If your blood pressure is satisfactory, then you probably are fine with your salt intake.

I'm careful about salt and fat (another thing processed/canned foods are often high in) for the health benefits, but I also just dislike the taste of most things that are saltier than they need to be.
 
Um thinks what? He noted a number of stats to back up the title's premise.
 
The titles premise, of course he finds the problem to be caused by his political bullshit. Correlation does not imply causation, he has nothing to actually back up his point.
 
I felt he had stuff to back up his facts, fwiw.

But if you disagree , why post an article which supports the OP's contention
 
Lol the article i posted right after yours refutes their position, which is also the rights political panacea. I'm shocked neither article pointed out trump's losers and suckers comments, or any of the other times he denigrated our military. Seems to me a commander in chief talking shit about the military would have a far greater effect than the hypothetical possibility of having a female boss.
 
I tried to reread your article but got blocked this time. Ok, so recruiting is a serious problem but various peeps claim different causes, apparently.
 
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