An article in today's Straits Times noted a substantial increase in the amount of food wasted in this Far Place over the last ten years or so. Those familiar with the astonishing fact that something like a whopping half of all food in the world never makes it into anyone's stomach would not have been surprised, so I wasn't. It comes with development, it seems. Waste is systemic. Putting all those enticing delicacies on the shelves to inflame our appetites involves creating surplus delicacies to ensure that profits are maximised. We already have too much and the answer is to create more.
Do you ever get the feeling that our species is an experiment of nature that has gone sadly wrong?
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