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

[John McLeod]

Thank you Jen and Jan,

Two quotes I recently came across. Joseph Stiglitz - we socialize debt and privatize profit : and a US Supreme Court Justice 1920-1940,- “ we can have democracy or we can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few, however we can’t have both “

The Un has recently has 170 plus countries sign onto 17 Sustainable Development Goals ( EDG’s ), lets get focused on this doable initiative…….

Cheers
John
On Jun 24, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Jen Fisher-Bradley <humandignity at shaw.ca> wrote:

> The key word is "complexity" of our lives.
> 
> Simplification goes against our mainly colonized thinking. Our egos have gone wild with "problem solving" which is a false premise, for life on a finite planet. 
> 
> Bring on the Global Guaranteed Livable Income, define happiness, reach for it. See the struggle for power at the root of our demise. Turn that struggle into something else using our plastic brains. And using all we know about psychology. With a vision of being in perfect harmony with natural systems exit conquer and divide, forever. 
> 
> Simplify our waste. 
> 
> I am glad I'm not the only one who finds some of this UN stuff way over the top. Have to remember they are not much more than glorified poverty pimpers . You know the group that gets paid to manage the poor. They lurk around every corner. We could eliminate this socio-economic power structure, rich and poor, if we valued our lives, but unfortunately a colonized subject has no value. 
> 
> Jen Fisher-Bradley 
> Taking action is the Mother of Hope.
> 
> Sent from my Huawei Mobile
> 
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> Subject: [BCFSN] UN Establishes New Global Standard in Bid to Tackle Food	Loss, Waste
> From: Jan Steinman 
> To: food at bcfsn.org
> CC: 
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> 
> 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 ::::
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