Wandering through the woods

One of those things I hate is the waste of good food. Apparently, as I learned when walking a woman over to Balducci's in the rain (her umbrella died and she was old and limping, so I slowed down and walked with her there, and she was all ranty about this) -- Balducci's throws out all of its food at the end of the night -- it doesn't donate it to shelters, or bring it to the firehouse half a block away. Environmentally and just because it grates on something in my psychology, this horrifies me. One of the sad things at the food tasting tonight was the fact that some of those taste-gasmic, intense, beautifully presented chocolates were thrown out.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but clearly, we need more pressure on people to do better. It comforts me that there are people like simonbillenness who put pressure on companies to hire ethically, to not use sweatshop workers, etc. -- but the smaller wastes, the little outrages... no one talks about those.

I wonder if I could eat all of that food.

I am a dumpster-diver in the making.