Giulia Beccarelli
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Pisarei e faso'
Waste is a sin. It is the number one rule you learn quickly when you grow up on a farm in Italy, and one you will always abide by, no matter where life takes you, just because it is the right thing to do. Or else. Perhaps this is true of any farm anywhere in the world, since nobody says it openly and directly, but the message is constantly and more or less subtly conveyed in every possible way, in every circumstance, on every occasion, every single day of your life…but it is not as bad as it sounds, really. It is a valuable lesson to learn, considering just how much time and how much work it takes to produce everything from scratch, all the resources and the labor involved, all the efforts and the sacrifices your family and their family had to make in order to get you where you are. This is especially true of food: almost everything you discard has another use, and not all waste is created equal. Sometimes it feeds someone else: every animal on the farm has a category of food “waste” they are assigned to, and you will learn that, too.
By Giulia Beccarelli3 years ago in Lifehack