tonite i listened to a podcast from the abc (the science show) which included an interview from a anthropologist in the states who has been studying waste – particularily food waste. my fav bit was:
Robyn Williams: So where do young people or ordinary people, adults for that matter, think meat and milk and fruit come from?
Tim Jones: They don’t know. When you ask them they tell you they literally don’t know. It’s become so commodified now that they don’t realise it’s from a living thing. When you even start talking about the fact (let’s say, about meat) that you take an animal and you kill it and then you cut it up and then you make this…they get nauseated, they can’t eat, if you’re eating they stop eating, they’ll get up and walk away, it’s too terrifying for them. Those are the kinds of reactions that you’re getting from much of the population. There is still a core part of the population in America who understands all this. This is why we still have environmental groups and things like that. I can’t tell the percentages but it’s probably in the 30%-40% range, but the rest of the population doesn’t get any of this. The long-term conditioning of food as a commodity has got to a point that that’s where our obesity…that’s the core of the obesity issue that we have in this country, which they estimate costs us at least $100 million a year. It’s the core of the food loss problem, which costs us another $100 million a year, and it’s just not within the general public, it’s within everybody
later he mentions going to schools and talking to them about adding things like students growing & eating the food they grew AND going to a slaughterhouse! YES!!!!! i predict there would be a lot more vegetarians. 
but really, his research is pretty interesting. the amount of food we toss is pretty shocking.
transcript: here
hello.
Im not sure how i got to your blog, oh wait, i think i googled something like “dawn service melb” for info on tomorrows Anzac Day service. I remember reading something on your blog that you went there last year, and you live in the city, and what attracted me to reading more was that you were from NYC and had been living in Melb and i was just curious about what you thought about it.(i was visting NYC exactly 1 year ago, and have lived in Melb for all 23years of my life.)
So anyways, i took a look at some of the photos on your site and was interested in looking at Melb through the eyes of a visitor. Some very nice photos,
After reading some of your posts, i became interested in some of the things you’ve been upto, and was just reading around, linking to alot of the websites you mentioned, plenty of interesting stuff, and had a bit of fun at the futureme site. Also the science show podcast.
So this all led to me being sidetracked from studying for about 4 hours last nite, and another 3 hours today. thanks, Lol.
But, i just thought id write a comment about how your blog had impacted a total strangers life in some way.
Have a nice day.