On Apr 11, 10:05 am, dh@. wrote:
> On 8 Apr 2007 07:17:27 -0700, "GrtArtiste" > wrote:
>
> >On Apr 4, 11:38 am, dh@. wrote:
> ><snip>
> >> But there's already a surplus of food. So would it be a waste
> >> of time? Even if we could dry, sanitize and package millions
> >> of pounds of nutrition from our food waste every day, would
> >> it be of no real value? Are people who are starving just going
> >> to have to continue to starve, regardless of how much extra
> >> food more fortunate people have to deal with?
>
> >Please cite the study/reference which leads you to somehow make the
> >statement that the waste products of approx 300 millions can be
> >salvaged to feed the larger masses of the hungry.
>
> Maybe not. It could sure feed millions of them though.
>
> >That sounds like a
> >negative supply equation if ever I heard one. You obviously don't have
> >any real idea of the size/scope of the problem.
>
> How many people are starving?
>
> >You want to "sanitize"
> >it? Process something that is presently unsuitable for human
> >consumption
>
> Only because someone may have licked it or something.
>
> >into something that is? Furthermore, you want to incur a
> >massive energy debt to produce this product and then deliver it to its
> >destination? More greenhouse gases that the planet does not need.
>
> >See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
>
> >a fictional story (probably before your time). An interesting tale on
> >a somewhat related topic.
>
> >The law of supply and demand will reign supreme.
>
> The supply is being thrown away, doing no good at all.
>
> >Food in sufficient
> >quantity has to be produced in near proximity to where the consumers
> >live. If it cannot be, famine is the unpreventable result which will
> >bring supply and demand back into balance.
>
> >GrtArtiste
>
> So are you saying never help starving people? Or only
> do it so rarely that it doesn't matter what we do with our
> garbage. Well, that's what we're doing now, so maybe
> everything is as it should be.

dh would be eating himself in the garbage in,
garbage out world.

dh is the original garbage/humanoid.