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Originally Posted by mensplace
Besides just the children, farmers hogs were very well fed with the trash can sized buckets of food that was left over from each school. That is against the rules today, as is the leftovers from restaurants. Too, behind every grocery store throws away a LOT of food that is past its date. Some food banks arrange to get a little bread, but most is thrown away. Most never makes it to be used for compost, much less to feed farm animals.
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Pretty sad when school lunches are considered "unfit" for feeding to hogs. Makes you wonder long and hard just how bad the food system really is........... 
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Scott
AKA The Redbaron
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."
Bill Mollison
co-founder of permaculture
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