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[mopinko]

my letter to my sen, tammy duckworth- sub i would write this to bob casey, but i live in illinois.

besides the price of food, a preventable, huge stressor on family budgets is food waste. this is part of the business plan of the snack food industry.
there is no reason potato chips should go stale, almost ever, except for the fact that they come in packaging designed to get them to you fresh, and to go stale asap after. unless you repackage them, or use a big clip or something. it’s an idea so obvious, it’s a meme- why dont snacks come in resealable bags?
why are the most expensive items in our carts packaged to go bad? it’s the food version of planned obsolescence.
besides what it does to family budgets, and food assistance programs, these are some of the most environmentally destructive crops.
the solution is obvious. snacks must come in resealable packaging. if they’re smart, they will make it something that people will reuse. the 21st century cookie tin, if you will. except it’s a ziplock bag.
so, to bob casey- i hope you will consider adding this common sense solution to your bill addressing shrinkflation.
keep up the good work, both of you.

sincerely,
mo cahill
urban farmer
artist
designer
mom

eta- feel free to c/p and sign your own name. this is hardly my idea.

[marble falls]

1. We all really need to get back to the family garden. I have to settle for hydroponic and a strip in front of the ...

... of the house. We sit on 2-4" of soil on a massive granite formation. When I was a kid in Cleveland, they had public gardening where a person could rent a 10 x10' garden space for a buck or two, they provided water for free. It should be available in every town and city.

[mopinko]

2. there r quite a few by me.

there arent many vacant lots on chgo, except for the rly poor hoods. many many of them end up w gardens. there a nonprofit that gets owners of big commercial lots to let them use them for gardens. (they pull in a good bit o money. and 8x10 goes for $100 last i checked.)
some of the parks have community gardens, too. school gardens r big, too, tho the plague hurt that. couple np’s doin that.

but there r a lot of ppl who cant do it for a lot of reasons.