To think rationing should be brought back?

[Tortycat]

Lots of threads about Christmas over consumption at the moment, both food and present wise. People either feeling guilty about buying too much or financially feeling the strain. Climate change seems to be at near catastrophe levels and we have to stop consuming to have a chance - plastic, palm oil, meat etc.

So how about bringing back rationing? A definate limit in what you can 'consume ' ie clothes, food, stuff, airmiles. fuel etc. Ok I'm aware there may be economic problems, but hurtling towards environmental catastrophe just to keep people in jobs seems insane. Think of the plus points - no fast fashion, no 'keeping up with the Jones's, no having to keep buying things, more trade and jobs in repairing things, less waste etc. Its so easy to keep buying things. I 'need' new clothes, new bathroom suite etc, but i dont really. If everyone had to cut back it would be so mu ch easier. The excess and consumerism of xmas have depressed me and adverts are still on imploring us to buy more. Drastic times call for drastic measures??

Bringing back old style food rationing in the same format would certainly succeed in making life much more difficult for women again

(Who would it fall to ,to prepare all the food from proper scratch).

Also with so many single person households again > it's just a very different society than it was. I can't imagine all the single blokes setting to and wrking out how to feed themselves properly from the small veg box and 2 slices bacon they've got for the week (or whatveer it would be). I mean that's their problem but in reality woudln't lots of people who didn't have a handy person (almost certianly a woman) on hand to cook for them, get malnourished?

I think that would be a great idea. I'm just about to try a year on Huel as it's low packagaing
Low packaging on the consumer side, would be interested in their carbon footprint during the making process, most of their ingredients are not from the UK, they're from India, China, Canada so they're shipping them in to make it, then shipping the final product out to the other countries that they sell to.

I've lived with rationing in another country. It's shit. People can make their own stupid or sensible choices with their own money. That's none of your business. Please god we never return to that.
I repeat, from personal experience, it's shit.

Well it's not really practical is it. Much easier if people just realise Christmas is a load of shite and buying crap you don't need and eating all the food won't make you happy.

A year on huel?? With no other food?? Have you tried it?!

I just googled huel

I take massive pleasure from food, I am sure that the products shown meet their claims > nutritionally complete etc but it doesn't look like much fun

Some people eat to live I think and just onboard calories bacsue they need to, I think it woudl look great for them

Or as an occasioanl thing maybe

Having said that I've not tried it

I don’t drive so I used to walk for an hour to get to the nearest town. These things were standard for hundreds of years.

But not now. Most of us couldnt afford to.keep horses nor have somewhere to keep.them.
To walk to.my nearest big town would be along a major A road. Not a chance!

Not all of us could cycle either (see above) and bring back a weeks shopping on.a bike. And considering we would still have to get to.work no way am i cycling that road any day never mind in winter in the dark.

Never mind those of us whose health conditions wouldnt allow us to walk 2 hrs 1 complete with several bags of shopping.

Think before you put forward something as a solutuon for all please.

surely you should be capable of controlling your own consumption and shouldn't need a nanny State to do it for you.

Yup.

Also a small island with a relatively small population won't make a difference.

Unless the USA et al followed suit it's pointless.

My personal opinion is that it's not the society that should be restricted ie rationing but that the food industry / sugar industry should be controlled better somehow.

Food comapnies get away with all sorts of misleading labelling, shoddy practice etc they are deliberate in that they want people to get addicted to their products and they know just what to put into food to make it set off our wow more more more monkey/animal brains.

I see them as up there with the tobacco and oil industries knowlingly causing massive damage to make a few £££

That's my view anyway.