If Shiva turns up her nose up at potato chips, I m sure she could go down to the local greengrocers for some fresh fruit and veggies. In the west, no one forces you to buy food that you object to. I suspect that what Vandana really objects to is persons whose tastes do not come up to her own dizzyingly high standards. Perhaps we should send these distasteful, ignorant masses to re-education camps where we can teach them the evils of potato chips and the virtues of fresh fruit. And minimal spending usually means minimal packaging.
Modern packaging is designed to prevent spoilage, minimise waste and maintain hygienic standards.
Rathje found that most households in Mexico City made their own orange juice, rather than buy the pre-packaged processed variety. The result is that the average Mexican City household threw out 10.5 pounds of orange peel each week compared with 2 ounces of cardboard or aluminium from fruit concentrate containers that the typical American household threw out. Moreover, the peel from the oranges used to process the concentrate were converted into other products. And there s more to come. The Mexican City household required 25 per cent more oranges to produce the same amount of orange juice that the American household consumed.