Disciple of Tarzan
I'm not quite a lumberjack, but that's OK, I sleep all night and I dream all day; I'll coppice trees, I'll grow my food, and compost poo and pee! With a well and off-grid solar, it's a permies life for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
Sometimes the answer is nothing
Experimenting and growing on my small acre in SW USA; Fruit & Nut trees w/ annuals, hoping to get Chickens, rabbits, and in-laws onto property soon.
Long term goal - Furniture & Luthier Stay-at-home farm dad.
data shows that the environmental footprint of food often exceeds that of its primary packaging; for example, beef emits 370 times more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than packaging and cucumbers emit 178 times more greenhouse gases than packaging
Examine your lifestyle, multiply it by 7.7 billion other ego-monkeys with similar desires and query whether that global impact is conscionable.
Come join me at www.peacockorchard.com
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
I'm not quite a lumberjack, but that's OK, I sleep all night and I dream all day; I'll coppice trees, I'll grow my food, and compost poo and pee! With a well and off-grid solar, it's a permies life for me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshU58nI0Ts
As to the "need" of additional plastic packaging to safeguard food against spoilage, I find it difficult to believe that there aren't better means of food preservation available.
Examine your lifestyle, multiply it by 7.7 billion other ego-monkeys with similar desires and query whether that global impact is conscionable.
Jondo Almondo wrote:
As to the "need" of additional plastic packaging to safeguard food against spoilage, I find it difficult to believe that there aren't better means of food preservation available.
If an affordable, environmental means of fresh food preservation that scales to 7 billion people existed, it would be in use.
Your solution of only-local butchers would affect the food security of billions of people and potentially increase emissions and food poisoning.
It's a shame that our instinct is to rush towards simplification and conspiracy theory, when there is a complex issue, with lots of nuance and counter-intuitive science to be understood.
Plastic packaging has kept countless tonnes of methane out of the atmosphere, I can't even imagine the runaway-apocalypse scenario we'd be in without their invention.
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins
Jondo Almondo wrote:
If an affordable, environmental means of fresh food preservation that scales to 7 billion people existed, it would be in use.
Jondo Almondo wrote: Your solution of only-local butchers would affect the food security of billions of people and potentially increase emissions and food poisoning.
Jondo Almondo wrote:Plastic packaging has kept countless tonnes of methane out of the atmosphere, I can't even imagine the runaway-apocalypse scenario we'd be in without their invention.
"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein