First, to increase shelf life of perishable goods, we use pesticides, preservatives, wax, GM them. That’s the first distortion with nature.

After that, to feed the frenzy of consumerism, we make food travel long distances to be available 24 x 7.

Nature says, fruit that grows naturally in a geography in a season is best consumed locally. That’s why nature made things perishable.
But in our endeavour to McDonaldize everything, we created frozen, packaged, heated, packaged, treated, packaged products.

We lost our connect with nature. Farmer and food became another product produced in mass factories—yeah, meat too is a food.

Localization of food supplies is the mantra.
Global practices, local sourcing is the key to reduce packaging waste.

Why do we need packaging waste?
Why can’t technology offer recyclable solutions?
Why can’t milk be sold in bottles and small aluminium cans?
Why can’t lentils, sugar, groceries be sold from dispensers and taken by customers in containers?
Why can’t retail giants deliver groceries in such containers?
Why can’t these containers be sold as part of a membership package?

These are the questions that Big Basket, Grofers, Zomato, Swiggy, Big Bazaar, Reliance Retail need to answer. The aggregators need to answer.

The manufacturers need to answer. Their owners and shareholders need to answer. To consumers and law enforcement agencies.

Brands need to invest in recyclable, reusable packaging solutions.
Brands need to start getting into micro modes rather than mega.
Say no to mega factories, mega farms. Economy of scale is a disaster.
It wastes huge quantities of food and unnecessarily drives down the price of produce.

Words like competitive advantage, economy of scale, and global markets have done more harm to the world by making companies invest in innovative packaging solutions, which are essentially more plastics, new plastic, plastic waste.

It’s time for all stakeholders to wake up to the real challenge. Else, as always, someone will disrupt the applecart and you’ll be gone before you flinch.

Say no to the single-use packaging menace.
Say yes to reusable, recyclable solutions—ideally biodegradable.

Always remember: Nature packaged everything for maximum shelf life.
Don’t try to play God with nature.

We all know the speed is slowing down as a percentage, but with increased base, the numbers added are huge. 

Population growth is not happening among people, demography, economies, cultures, countries, and continents that can afford it. As they have a larger land mass, an abundance of wealth and resources, and can feed a larger population.  Like Europe, US, CIS Countries, or the Developed world.

But is happening in Asia, Africa largely. 

The so-called third world, developing, and underdeveloped countries.  Which are already burdened with Debt. Unable to pay billions, as interests on service debts. 

Population over 50 to 100 Million, 250 Million, and inthe Case of Countries like Bharat 1.5 Billion. 

Between China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

Check the data below,.

Check population Density.

Check Total Numbers, simple 10X, 100X 

The Above data shows clearly the inverse ratio between wealth and Population. 

Most of these Countries have been ruled by Colonisers, looted for centuries of their wealth. 

When Human becomes resource like Oil, Coal,  Meat, and Iron Ore. They are grown, harvested.  The best Ones: go to the best markets that can afford them. So the poor countries invest their scarce resources to educate, train, and bring up people for a decade or 2, typically 20 years. 

The developed world picks the best harvest to, pays the premium to 5-10% best stock, and the rest is left as discarded assets of discarded world.  

Fighting for jobs, resources, water, the right to live, health, and clean air.  The frustrated protest fight each other in the name of religion, culture.  Actually, it’s the fight for survival and resources, religion and race is just camouflage. 

The Poor, Underdeveloped countries need to understand how they have been exploited, abused by developed countries in the name of freedom, progress, growth, economic stability, GDP, etc. 

India, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan, Brazil, Nigeria, Ethiopi,a among others, need to stop being Human production factories. They need to build a system of Quality Humans at Birth. 

It’s time for these countries to focus on a Quality population with Strong population control measures, especially among the poor and marginalized. 

Else, the State feeding, freebies will bankrupt the countries.

The wealth creators, businesses, and industries will leave their native lands and go to bigger wealth-creating magnet nations of the West and North. 

Here is some Geographic Significance.

Global East and Global South are relatively poorer than Global West and Global North. 

The wealth of One ( Europe, US, the North and West, essentially Colonisers)  is the wealth, resources looted from the Other, Asia, Africa, South America. 

British, Spanish, Italians, Portuguese, and French. The 5 Biggest Global invaders, colonisers are the developed world today, how? 

The Cycle started 400 years ago, and continues with Humans being the latest loot. 

In a typical Lifecycle of a Human, they are treated much like Beef or Pork farms that humans operate.

For 20 Years of life, the population is a burden on food supply, Infrastructure, education, Water supply, Homes, Roads, and Healthcare Infra. 

After 20 years, the best harvest is picked by the top payers and is exported to global markets.  Human resources. That’s a reality. The best-kept secret of Colonizers, now developed and Fortune 500 world. 

There is no real-world benefit of the Demographic dividend, besides the mob. Mob that drives mobocracy in the name of democracy.

Mob that does not add to the value of wealth creation, the distribution cycle of the Economy. Just labour, poor, unskilled, ready to be exploited for a dollar a day or less. 

With 20-30 million more mouths added to the stagnant supply chain of all possible resources.  These millions just work as Human fodder to fire the Growth Canon. 

1 million will be consumed by the US, Europe, and other developed countries, you are left with 19 million, every year, 2nd grade. 

Creating Huge pressure on these countries’ economies, creating healthcare scares, Ecosystem Meltdowns. 

The Devastating Climate change-powered environment mega events like floods, Hurricanes, and rising seas are directly linked to Over overconsumption of resources by the developing world to feed the frenzy of the developed world. More use and throw products, Phones, Shoes, clothes, packaged goods, Plastic goods, packaged food, water. Plastic, Plasti,c, and more plastic. 

Everything is Linked to Population. 

That makes, consumes, exploits the earth and in turn gets exploited itself are the poor humans living in inhuman conditions at human factories, labs, sweatshops. 

Only when the supply of this resource is controlled, its demand and value will rise. It’s in the interest of Humanity to undertake Population control on a mission mode. Let no data scientist, Western media feed you the religious, cultural steroid that if you slow down your growth, you will lose out. 

The multiple pressures being created by the bursting population on these poor countries can only be tackled by Strong Population control measures. Stop Pollution, stop the expansion of cities, the Concretisation of natural reserves, destruction of water bodies to feed a bursting population. 

The developing and Underdeveloped Countries need to come together and stop. Stop being human farms, stop being resource guzzlers of your own ecosystems, Stop Being the parasites, in the name of Culture, religion, or race.