Ammunition for Conversations You Will Be Having Soon

CBC radio won't give you this guarantee, but I'll give it to you for them: if you listen to CBC radio 1 for let's say, a minimum of an hour - even just in the background - you will find yourself usefully repeating something you heard within a week. "They were saying on CBC the other day that . . ." "I heard this story on CBC . . ." Maybe you will forgo such intro's and just launch into whatever it is, but it's uncanny how they give out ammunition for conversations you will be having soon.

So having said all that I heard something on the radio today. The only thing is is that it wasn't CBC. (But I still stand by that introductory paragraph.) Anyway: apparently 40% of Canada's food supply gets wasted annually (restaurants + spoilage + waste + poor planning + overabundance . . .) Isn't that crazy? It actually made me feel ashamed.

I was telling Kristy this - and we both agreed that if they got my mom in some government position to get a handle on this waste issue, she would be setting some people straight. Not because she is authoritarian or overbearing, but because I don't think she's ever wasted any food. Leftovers get turned into other things - more than once if necessary. She's a master of food management (household management for that matter).

But I digress. 40%?

Yikes.