How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be surprised.

Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by drp on Sunday July 12, 2009 @12:47PM (#700308)

Along that vein, I'm curious about the inflection of this quote regarding her homemade prosciutto: "It proves you can make really good pork off of dumpster scraps." I hope it's sarcastic, or saying that she would have thrown the pork away otherwise, but something is nagging at me to take it at face value. Some chemical contaminants might actually taste good.

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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by cdr on Sunday July 12, 2009 @12:55PM (#700318)

I took that to mean she was feeding pigs dumpster scraps. Not sure, though.

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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by drp on Sunday July 12, 2009 @12:59PM (#700320)

Oh, good point. I read Charlotte's web so long ago that I forgot to think of what pigs ate. Still, hopefully the slop she's making is from scraps that never made it to the dumpster, otherwise the same concern about contaminants applies.

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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by cdr on Sunday July 12, 2009 @05:45PM (#700611)

I wouldn't consider it much of a concern - people can live just fine off of dumpster diving. Tons of perfectly edible (much less "contaminated") food gets thrown out.

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