Thread: Exaggerated Reporting

Originally Posted by isuzurover

pot, kettle?

Possibly, old mate, Bob
"Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack.""Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean – without blemish or blot –
That your blackness is mirrored in me."

Originally Posted by bob10

Possibly, old mate, Bob
"Oho!" said the pot to the kettle;
"You are dirty and ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack.""Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot;
"'Tis your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean – without blemish or blot –
That your blackness is mirrored in me."

HaHaHa Good one Bob.
John.

Originally Posted by richard4u2

bigpond news item " half of all food thrown out

I could easily buy into that figure IF it counted food as in food from source to belly and thrown out as meaning not put into someones stomach.

if you look at one cow by the time you gut it, skin it, bone it, slice it, defat that then cook it and throw out any scraps I'm certain that less than half the cow turns out to be edible.

but Factor in The bones go to fertilizer, the fat goes to a soap farm, the hide goes to a tannery and the scraps goto the family dog, the guts goes into animal food and all of a sudden the statement doesnt seem so dramatic.

Its just a statistic and give me enough raw data, tell me what you want it to prove and let me come up with the sample filtering method and anything becomes provable.

It would be interesting to know how much food is wasted in supermarkets because it is trucked so far around the country that it could be a week before it even hits the shelves. Sometimes thats unavoidable of course if the town is isolated, but why should it happen in the east coast cities? Yet they call themselves the 'fresh food people"?
We grow quite a lot of our vegetables and buy most of the rest at the local Sunday morning market and its amazing how much longer it lasts than the stuff from the supermarkets.
Local production and sales would seem to be a useful answer, particulary in poor areas where it reduces the need to earn cash to get food.

After being a meat manager for both the large chain supermarkets I can say I'm horrified by the amount of food that they throw out, when I surgested that we could donate the food to a homeless shelter/food kitchen for the homeless and under privileged I was laughed at and told they won't do they I case someone gets sick from it and sues!!! With what an average store throws out in a day I think concervitivly you could feed 200 people till their bellies popped!!!

Oh and one store I worked for found out local hippies where trash diving for food in the bins they started padlocking them as company policy....

Originally Posted by disco2_dan

case someone gets sick from it and sues!!!

Not nice, but a very, very valid reason.
Until we can ensure that a vested interest group won't launch a class action suite on behalf of all the homeless for sickness brought about by a well meaning soup kitchen or food redistribution service, it won't happen.

For the same reason, many bakeries give or sell excess bread to zoos or feedlots instead of homeless.

Some interest groups see a quick buck in holding philanthropy to account.

BTW, Ministerial concession or law change is all that is required in respect to limiting damages claimable.

Ralph

Not an exaggerated report but one with no real substance:

Paying the penalty for driving a Range Rover

This is one of those articles that makes you wonder why it was written. There is no "news" in it. Perhaps it might serve as a reminder to people to make sure you know what the law says with regard to what you can drive on your P plates and that ignorance is no excuse in law ("I didn't know it was a turbo / V8') etc.