[BCFSN] UN Establishes New Global Standard in Bid to Tackle Food Loss, Waste

[Jan Steinman]

OMG, 156 pages to tell us what “waste” is? What a waste!

I feel like the Supreme Court justice who, when asked what “pornography” was, said, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it!’"

“Modular Definitions of the Law,” “Diverse Quantification Options,” “Guidance: Valorization of FLW” — can anyone explain what this has to do with small farmers and food producers?

Joseph Tainter (“On the Collapse of Complex Societies”) claims that civilizations collapse when the effort and energy of maintaining their complexity uses up all available resources. I think we’re getting perilously close…

:::: Future historians will no doubt remark upon the inevitable association, with us, between sanitation and filthy lucre. And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons. -- Wendell Berry
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::