My Very Modern Proposal

Recently, I had the opportunity to read Dr. Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and, while he made very good points, I think that he may have gone a little off track (and a little too extreme) for helping the problems we have in our society. With this in mind, I would like to make my own proposal. Instead of focusing on getting children off the streets and helping our poor (both very honorable causes), though, I am going to center my ideas around food waste and the environment.

Americans throw away about 263 million pounds of food a day, much of that food still edible. Because of this, we end up with giant, unpleasant looking trash mounds that are filled with rotting food.That much food is piling up at an increasingly fast rate, with food taking a long time to decompose as more food is placed on top of it, along with all the packaging they come in. Soon we will start running out of places to put all our trash and we will begin competing for land. So I have thought up an idea to solve this war with our food: Turn all food into liquid.

Every single meal. Every fruit, vegetable, meat product, etc. as soon as they are picked or killed will be sent to a special "grinding house" where they will be pounded and ground down until everything is in its most liquid form.

This system will reduce the amount of paper plates, utensils, and even the packaging that is used to accommodate solid foods. You have probably noticed that the use of eco friendly mugs has been advertised a lot more in the past couple years to get people to use them more and cut back on the amount of water bottles they throw away each year. These reusable mugs are key to my plan. Each individual would have several eco friendly mugs. They then would take their mugs to the store, or restaurant, any time they want to get more food. At the stores and restaurants, people will be able to fill their mugs up at the juice stations; beef juice, ham juice, egg juice, and any other food you can think of. This cuts way back on all of the packaging that would be needed to hold these foods.

The best part of all of this is that even if you have leftover food it will not end up in a pile on land, polluting the environment, that we could be using for something else.  Instead you can pour it onto your grass or a body of water to be evaporated later. It is my sincerest belief that this system will work and that we should begin using it as soon as possible.