Posted on 03/04/2017 7:07:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With no solution to the food crisis in Venezuela, some people have begun looking for new strategies to make life easier on those that have to eat trash to sustain.
Controversial Priest and opponent to President Nicolás Maduros administration Father Jose Palmar posted on social media this week about labeling discarded waste so those looking through it for food can do so more easily and with dignity.
Palmar called on Venezuelans to celebrate Lent by identifying bags where food has been discarded for those with no where else to turn. That way, they dont have to dig through non-edible items to find it.
Try to preserve food waste so that people who eat out of garbage cans can praise the Lord, Palmar wrote.
The priest also recommended that people not mix leftovers with other garbage. Instead, deposit the waste in one bag, tie it and write food on the outside.
Since last year, several independent research organizations have said the number of people turning to garbage as a source of food has and continues to increase.
In September, social media in Venezuela was blew up after a video revealed the stark reality the country faces with food: desperate children, young people and adults rummaging in the garbage to eat.
The political crisis in Venezuela, food shortages and the decrease of Venezuelans purchasing power has reportedly caused more than 70 percent of its population to suffer weight loss, pushing many to eat out from the garbage left on the streets.
According to the National Survey of Living Conditions (Encovi), 3.9 percent of the population has been affected by malnutrition, while 9.6 million Venezuelans can only eat twice a day.
They'd need a lot of bbq sauce.
If that many people were throwing out food, then the food crisis isn't that widespread. If, as we've seen, the grocery lines are so long then why is there a national call to label the leftovers? There shouldn't be any leftovers. Heck, there is no food waste or leftovers at my house.
That's the same as those articles we've read for the past couple years how farmers and cooks have no food to feed their own families. Hogwash. As if there isn't food left at the end of the day at restaurants for the workers to take some home. If the vast majority of the population doesn't have money to buy bread, then why are restaurants still open? As if farmers can't feed their own families. Venezuela has a long growing season. Dumpster dive for seeds and compost in all that food garbage and grow food in the backyard or even a window sill. Every little bit helps. Reuse, repurpose, use up and if there's anything left after that recycle.
‘course the communists in big media and socialists in Congress will tell us Venezuela just implemented it wrong.
And here in the U.S. foods are taken off the shelves and thrown away simply because their “sell by” date ran out..........
Have you ever seen a restaurant dumpster. Whole meals untouched. But by law, can’t be reused. Seagulls at the dump eat like kings. Maybe they should kill the well fed seagulls for food.
Garbage. It’s what’s for dinner, comrade.
Back in the day, “sell by” (which has nothing to do with expiration dates) items, bread and produce was put on tables or pallets behind our grocery store for anyone to take home. Now days it’s all dumped in the garbage. You can’t even get the produce guy to give your rabbits or goats the stuff he’s throwing out. America wastes so much.
Try to preserve food waste so that people who eat out of garbage cans can praise the Lord, Palmar wrote.
Please tell me this is satire.
Here's a better idea......
How about serving the food to the poor instead of throwing it out and having people dig through trash to find it while it rots in the hot Venezuelan sun.
And all those socialistic dictators are women, eh?
And for that we can thank the government who is so busy trying to protect us from ourselves.
Include a 45 caliber or 9mm in each drop.
Ain’t Socialism Grand?
Meanwhile:
Venezuelans Are Separating Food from Waste as More People Forced to Eat from Garbage
The title says it all !
Let this be a lesson in waiting for government help
Thanks, Tilted Irish Kilt.
So, r-selected people are genetically wired to demographically explode and then burn out, while K-selected people are wired to learn from their mistakes and not repeat those things?
Look at us: we, the supposedly K-selected people voted for Hoover and FDR, and you know what resulted from that. Us K-selected people also elected Clinton, Bush II and Obama. Are we really as “K-selected” as we think?
Let them have cake! Or stare the Revolution.
There but for the grace of Trump...if Hillary was it we’d be headed there shortly. I’m still prepping though ;)
Thanks TIK. Hope all is well with you. We had a beautiful spring day here in East Tennessee. An early one.
Socialism at work.
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