Mainstream Media Tips: How to Waste Less Food While Gaza Starves
The Independent, ever so helpfully, offers 'tips and tricks for avoiding food waste this Thanksgiving,' lest Americans collectively squander 320 million pounds of turkey. (A tragedy, indeed.) Meanwhile, the UN’s World Food Programme confirmed that the entire population of Gaza – over 2 million people – is facing 'catastrophic' levels of hunger, with aid convoys routinely blocked and besieged. It
appears selective outrage prevails; domestic food waste is a moral imperative to solve, while systemic starvation policies abroad are, well, just 'conflict'. Perhaps The Independent can next offer tips on how to digest such staggering double standards, or better yet, how to avoid wasting column inches on trivialities while real human catastrophes unfold, largely with US complicity.