Ship It to the Irish Babies We Will Eat

Here in the USA, we waste 27% of the food that's available for consumption. That's a bland fact. Hey wait a second... it's not. Saying we waste that food already suggests more than it would if I'd said, "Here in the USA, we discard 27% of the food that's available for consumption." That is a bland fact. There is nothing that necessarily follows that statement. If I say "One solution to that problem might be blah blah blah..." I'm begging the question, as they say. (We've discussed before the proper use of that expression) There is nothing in the bland fact expression that says "solution required".

Now if you accept that it is waste, we wander together. If you accept that waste carries some negative weight, we continue together. If we agree that it is a problem needing a solution, well, on we continue still. If your response to that statement is: "Something ought to be done," you reveal that we share a common sense. But what solution might we develop? What solution might be born in the world we inhabit together?

There is nothing in the statement itself that presents a solution. Well, maybe we might say, "Stop." But that's more a response than a solution.

That's all. Kind of pointless isn't it?