Felicia Lee's List: GCA Resources Problems and Solutions (May'12)

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• leftover food takes up much of the limited space in city landfills
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• fining diners for leftovers
• The mall produces about 1.8 tons of food waste every day.

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• high proportion of this imported food comes from mainland China
• rest of Hong Kong’s food comes from sources scattered all over the world
• China produces lots and lots of chickens, but the frozen ones in my local Park N Shop are from Brazil or the USA, and they’re actually far cheaper than the fresh ones trucked in from the mainland
• Buying cheap imports not only exacerbates the environmental problems associated with long-range shipping
• Very Bad Thing
• encourages the factory-farming
• we should buy fresh, and buy local
• means ‘buy Chinese’
• local wet markets
• freshly-slaughtered meats, live seafood
• most of this food comes from not that far away
• preserved foods
• Guangdong province has a climate favorable for growing a wide range of food plants nearly year-round
• lots of farmland and cheap labor
• many of us would prefer to eat products we’re familiar with
• local markets, which can seem quite dirty
• and chaotic
• organic produce and milk
• humanely-raised and slaughtered meat.
• fish from the mainland
• news reports about contaminated eggs
• weird substances being used to stretch soy sauces
• if bears are treated like that, how about chickens and pigs?
• pictures of bear bile farms
• bear bile farms
• So what’s the best option? Is it better to ‘buy local’, thereby getting fresher, less-processed food that’s been travelled a minimal distance from farm to table.
• overseas that are certified ‘organic’ or ‘humane’

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