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Got back from a family vacation cruise this week; real good time with all 6 of us together. I did find something that I could not get over in my mind though. The amount of food left on the plates of the passengers was notably disturbing to me. To make things worse, one of our stops was in the Dominican Republic. We secured a mini-van and a guide while in the DR and were able to see some places other then the normal beach destinations. The amount of tin roof shacks that people call home there was an eye opener.
Even my young men commented on the waste at the buffet line so I asked the matradee at dinner how much food is thrown out. He said it's over 40%. Sad to see good quality food dumped into the trash while a 1/2 mile from the port people are begging for food. I know in the US we throw out a lot of food and I have heard of the same waste statistics at home. Maybe I was raise differently, maybe I am insulated from the poverty in the inner cities but wasting anything to me is just a sin.
I did some research on what is done with the food waste from cruise lines and was somewhat happy to hear it gets recycled for animals and fertilizer but this if far from a productive way to handle peoples inability to take less and make another trip to the buffet if you're still hungry.
Even my young men commented on the waste at the buffet line so I asked the matradee at dinner how much food is thrown out. He said it's over 40%. Sad to see good quality food dumped into the trash while a 1/2 mile from the port people are begging for food. I know in the US we throw out a lot of food and I have heard of the same waste statistics at home. Maybe I was raise differently, maybe I am insulated from the poverty in the inner cities but wasting anything to me is just a sin.
I did some research on what is done with the food waste from cruise lines and was somewhat happy to hear it gets recycled for animals and fertilizer but this if far from a productive way to handle peoples inability to take less and make another trip to the buffet if you're still hungry.