From: Dave Rumblehumper (djr2@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 14:27:48 EDT
or, if you're too lazy to walk all the way down to craig street, contact
me or elina (djr2@, ebm@) to donate it to food not bombs, and we'll take
it off your hands and distribute it for you. healthy, vegan foods
preferred, but of course everybody likes candy too...
-dave
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On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Monica S Ullagaddi wrote:
>
> I know the meal plan freshmen are required to subscribe to has changed a
> whole lot since my freshman year ... still...
>
> I recently had the opportunity to witness someone "burning meal blocks" (I
> think this was what it was called back in the day) by buying loads of
> junk food from upstairs in the uc (I have also forgotten what this is
> called). Or maybe they were just buying a lot of food... I don't really
> know.
>
> In any case, the person decided that they wouldn't be able to eat
> everything that they had purchased, and they threw it all out. Two bags
> full of food in the trash.
>
> I'm not going to lecture on somalia, india, or china, but... there are
> people right on craig street, oakland, south side, the strip wherever...
> that could have benefitted from what was thrown out. would it have killed
> you (you know who you are) to have taken a little hike (less than a half
> mile) down the street to give it to someone who could have really used it?
>
> In retrospect this has nothing to do with the meal plan, but just the
> enormous waste that occurs at cmu. yea yea, you pay 30 grand to come here
> and waste however the hell you want, but that's a disgusting attitude to
> take.
>
> There is a lot of good that organizations at cmu do in terms of community
> service... I'm not knocking that at all, on the contrary, they are the
> redeeming factor. On an individual level... however, much is to be
> desired.
>
>
> of whom much is given, much is expected.
>
> Monica S. Ullagaddi
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