Question

Pls write a letter for me

Answer 1

Nov. 9, 2015

    To the editor: I am writing this letter to the editor to make aware and bring light to the issue of food waste in the U.S. and the sincere injustice being done to humanity by it. Think about all the waste food that is still of very good quality for consumption wasted by the grocery stores alone. I am not even addressing home waste. 

Some of you may have even tried getting some of that “expired” bread to give to your chickens but have been told the same old thing — it is against company policy, blah blah blah. Well, it is time to make it not a decision of theirs to waste this very real, needed resource. After all, we all pay some cost for it. First, its cost to the stores are calculated into what we pay for other items and they get to write it off on their taxes, meaning we pay for it again. Second, this food is brought up on the same infrastructure we pay for through our taxes and that corporations use freely. Many corporations pay no income tax because of tax write-offs and loopholes. Third, this waste of resources while we scramble to help our brothers and sisters be fed here (and everywhere) that are for the most part in the positions they are in because of this very same capitalistic functioning creating the have and have-not society we live in, fueling greed and equality issues instead of creating alliances of reason and truth that fight the very system we are force-fed in the name of “freedom.”

I am calling on our local government to pass a measure that all food in stores must be directly distributed to people that need it. The stuff that is beyond fit for human consumption would reduce the amount of feed having to be brought up to sustain locally raised livestock, thus giving yet another benefit. It is time we wake up and do what we know is brainless and everyone agrees on. It’s time to take back sanity in our community government and make companies that prey off of us play by our rules, for everyone’s benefit, not just their pocketbooks.