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**Riprincattiva** · 09-01-2012, 12:47 PM

I think the best solution is to give to people who are starving, there is plenty of compost out there, but not enough food for the starving ones

And the economic incentive for packaging this stuff up and flying it to Where The Starving People Are Located is what? Because doing that would be bloody expensive, and I can't see a combini chain eating into their already slim profit margins to pull that off. Of course, on its own, feeding the hungry would be a totally useless business venture, and there just aren't enough philanthropists in the world to go through the trouble of packinging up combini food, getting it out of Japan, and getting it to the hungry.

It makes more sense to just grow food someplace cheap (like the U.S.) and ship it overseas, rather than trying to 'recycle' waste food in such a manner.

09-01-2012, 12:47 PM	#10
Riprincattiva Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 539 Senior Member	I think the best solution is to give to people who are starving, there is plenty of compost out there, but not enough food for the starving ones And the economic incentive for packaging this stuff up and flying it to Where The Starving People Are Located is what? Because doing that would be bloody expensive, and I can't see a combini chain eating into their already slim profit margins to pull that off. Of course, on its own, feeding the hungry would be a totally useless business venture, and there just aren't enough philanthropists in the world to go through the trouble of packinging up combini food, getting it out of Japan, and getting it to the hungry. It makes more sense to just grow food someplace cheap (like the U.S.) and ship it overseas, rather than trying to 'recycle' waste food in such a manner.
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