Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Food waste was framed as a social and systems issue, not just household carelessness: the show argued that abundance, consumption culture and business practices all shape how edible food gets discarded.

The researcher urged a shift from a linear “take, make, waste” model to circular economy responses, including community food redistribution, cold storage hubs, biogas, black soldier fly farming and composting.

Listeners backed the call to share surplus food, with one example of cooked food being collected for street people and another stressing Ubuntu’s duty toward community rather than individual possession.

The National Development Plan discussion argued father involvement is treated as a given rather than a variable, despite evidence linking father absence to poverty, violence and poor child outcomes; the proposed fix was to put fatherhood on the checklist.