Please do not waste food--if only for the principle of it.


	Please do not waste food--if only for the principle of it.

robjustin

2-9-2009 8:05 PM

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robjustin says:

I read a year or two ago about people in the Carribean (Haiti?) eating clay...This is so sad. I don't mean to get on a 'high horse' and I don't have a solution to offer, but it does remind me how privileged I am.

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