Package foods go away

Packaged Foods Go Away

Nuts have shells. Corn has husks. Grapes have skins (and so do we humans). Oh, potatoes have skins that we peel. Watermelons have rinds …which we compost, throw away, grind up in the garbage disposer or pickle and eat. Milk, in its natural form does not have a package, so we package it in order to reap its benefits. Honey comes in a comb or a hive or a cute plastic honey bear. Hershey Bars, which are representaive of a food group called chocolate come in aluminum and colorized pigmented, chemically treated paper wrappings. Um! Now, we’re getting somewhere . Can we eat, pickle, compost, burn what Hershey Bars are wrapped in? How about pickled Hershey Bar wrapper paper? What about potato chips, Oreos, Moosetracks ice-cream, natural frozen orange juice from 3,000 miles away, Nutri-bars, protein powder and McDonald’s wrappings and packages and holders? We throw them away. Where is “away”?

by Saul