Where does the race to the bottom lead to? It leads to pagpag

[LuckyTheDog]

Felipa Fabon waits outside a local fried chicken restaurant in Manila. Crouching near to feral cats and rubbish bins, she isn't there to meet friends for dinner but to search through the diner's trash bags.

"I'm sorting the garbage, looking for 'pagpag'," she says.

In Tagalog "pagpag" means the dust you shake off your clothing or carpet, but in Fabon's poverty- stricken world, it means chicken pulled from the trash.

Pagpag is the product of a hidden food system for the urban poor that exists on the leftovers of the city's middle class.

More (including video) here: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/30/world/asia/philippines-pagpag-slums/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

[alfredo]

1. The Plutocrats would make that illegal.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. Huh?

I think it SHOULD be illegal. If making sure kids get decent, safe food means making radical societal changes, then so be it. We should organize society around human needs, not around ideas like "the free market."

[msongs]

3. perhaps alfredo was referring to making it illegal to search thru trash for waste but edible food nt