Jack S.
10/7/14
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Food Surplus
In the Agrarian era with all the new ideas of growing crops and farming there was also the idea of food surplus. Food surplus is when people would stock and store food, or the act of putting food that you are using aside for the time being. When people would stock up on food in the agrarian era they would keep it close to them and in a good spot so it would not go bad. They were careful and mindful of how they surplussed their food. Even though in this era people began taking more than they needed and stocking up on it, they eventually ate it or used it for other purpose within their society.
Back in that day and age food was an essential part of human life as it is now, but people treated food much differently back then. People would not wast food or throw away leftovers, they ate everything that they got. Now a days we see some people throwing away entire meals because they don't like it or they aren't hungry. All this food is taken to land fills and buried in the earth or burned. When food is taken to land fills it can not be reused or recycled and it can not be composted to naturally decompose. People today throw out about 40% of their food each year. Having everyone do this creates an enormous amount of wasted food. Once we throw out the food we don't want we usually just go and buy more. This means that we take excessive amounts from our environment which has a very negative effect.
People in the Agrarian Era surplussed their food in an area where it wouldn't go bad and made sure they did it right so they could eventually eat or use the food they had collected. Humans today surplus their food by putting it in landfills and continuously buying it and then throwing it away over and over. In today's world the cycle of getting food and then throwing it away is a weekly if not daily cycle which has a huge effect on our environment. Because this cycle is so quick we do not give the environment enough time to produce more of whatever we take from it which results in it eventually not being able to produce it any more. We could prevent this by buying only what we are going to use and making sure that if we buy more than we need making sure that we don't just throw it away, but use it eventually. This will lower the amount of food that we throw away, and take some pressure off the environment to produce so much food. With landfills getting more full there is more waste being burned and buried which creates pollution and kills the environment. We can prevent this by recycling and composting certain food so that we can reuse some of it and the rest can decompose naturally.
In the Agrarian era with all the new ideas of growing crops and farming there was also the idea of food surplus. Food surplus is when people would stock and store food, or the act of putting food that you are using aside for the time being. When people would stock up on food in the agrarian era they would keep it close to them and in a good spot so it would not go bad. They were careful and mindful of how they surplussed their food. Even though in this era people began taking more than they needed and stocking up on it, they eventually ate it or used it for other purpose within their society.
Back in that day and age food was an essential part of human life as it is now, but people treated food much differently back then. People would not wast food or throw away leftovers, they ate everything that they got. Now a days we see some people throwing away entire meals because they don't like it or they aren't hungry. All this food is taken to land fills and buried in the earth or burned. When food is taken to land fills it can not be reused or recycled and it can not be composted to naturally decompose. People today throw out about 40% of their food each year. Having everyone do this creates an enormous amount of wasted food. Once we throw out the food we don't want we usually just go and buy more. This means that we take excessive amounts from our environment which has a very negative effect.
People in the Agrarian Era surplussed their food in an area where it wouldn't go bad and made sure they did it right so they could eventually eat or use the food they had collected. Humans today surplus their food by putting it in landfills and continuously buying it and then throwing it away over and over. In today's world the cycle of getting food and then throwing it away is a weekly if not daily cycle which has a huge effect on our environment. Because this cycle is so quick we do not give the environment enough time to produce more of whatever we take from it which results in it eventually not being able to produce it any more. We could prevent this by buying only what we are going to use and making sure that if we buy more than we need making sure that we don't just throw it away, but use it eventually. This will lower the amount of food that we throw away, and take some pressure off the environment to produce so much food. With landfills getting more full there is more waste being burned and buried which creates pollution and kills the environment. We can prevent this by recycling and composting certain food so that we can reuse some of it and the rest can decompose naturally.
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