WASTED FOOD
These days reality TV programming seems to dominate most TV channels . It is cheap to produce and the average couch potato enjoys watching "reality TV" purely because the cast is typically ordinary people and not professional actors, although celebrities may feature in some episodes. However, there is very little that is real about reality TV.
It is supposedly unscripted real-life situations about how ordinary people behave in everyday life but its really not the case. The episodes may be unscripted but there are writers who craft plot and write lines, do so purely to create conflict. "Conflict and controversy creates fame" and every one wants to be famous, hankers after both. Just look at the unknown actors who "act" in programs like Big Brother, Survivor, Cake Boss, The Apprentice, Extreme Home Make Over, The Osborns, Crossing Over with John Edward, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The Real Housewives, Hardcore Pawn, Border Security:Canada, Border Patrol, and Fear Factor, etc, etc...
I find the bulk of these programs irksome, because the producers are constantly insulting the intelligence of their audiences. Restated, they lie and cheat to get better ratings although there are some shows that are "factual", like Border Security: Australia. And other programs that highlight behind the scene events of Australia's Customs and Border Patrol: New Zealand and airs the work of their Department of Immigration, and their Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, as they enforce Australian immigration, customs, quarantine and finance laws.
I find these programs the pits. Because not an episode goes by that some Airport Customs official doesn't harass some, Asian, Chinese, Vietnamese, or Indian, national, confiscates their food and slaps them with a fine. In not saying that they are racist or prejudiced against these nations but its more than coincidental that these peoples are predominantly their victims. Again, it's the customs and culture of these Asian peoples to gift food to one another, especially those living abroad.
Understandably there needs to be a measure of control in place but to dump / incinerate thousands of kilograms of food daily is disgraceful, especially when considering there are millions of people in Asia who lives below the breadline. Not to mention Africa. If these "suspect foods" really needs to be confiscated for whatever reason, I'm certain these millions of tons of food per month could find its way to the less fortunate as food aid and food relief to people affected by flooding, earthquake, Tsunami, or other natural disaster.
Africa is probably the richest continent in the world but the majority of its peoples live on less than 1 US dollar per day if not less. This is purely because colonial powers have been usurping Africa's wealth for centuries and its high time for payback even if its going to be with confiscated food.
