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Sunday, November 1, 2015 @ 11:59 AM
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Prince George, B.C. – Rain hasn’t deterred dozens of people from participating in the 10th annual Rotten Pumpkin Festival in the parking lot outside The Exploration Place today.
“I’m actually surprised that we have this many people out,” says CEO Tracy Calogheros. “But this year the diehards are still out wanting to fling their pumpkins so we’ll be here.”
It costs $2 to participate and she says it will continue until 2 p.m. “This is the most fun you can have on Halloween while smashing pumpkins, let me tell you.”
Tracy Calogheros, CEO, The Exploration Place
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There is something obscene about the willful destruction of food . In a world so full of malnutrition it makes me cringe .
I guess Ataloss never had a carved pumpkin growing up or for his kids.
For once, I agree with you, Ataloss. It points out how foolish we are as a a species. So able to solve all the problems involved in food, and virtually everything elses’ “production”, only to still fail so miserably in developing appropriate means for its “distribution”. There is little doubt that the world could easily feed the malnourished to many times the number they now exist, and feed them, and all the rest of us, very well. We have not even scratched the surface of the physical productive capacity that we have available currently, but cannot even more partly use than we already do for fear of the financial consequences. So we waste. To make the ‘facts’ fit the ‘figures’.
OMG. How does a fun event like this turn into this bizarre social commentary? Maybe Ataloss wants to bake a bunch of pies and ship them around the world? I to am at a loss here
They could have been donated to a pig farm! Pigs will eat them, no pie baking required!
It is a bizarre waste of food, no doubt about it!
I agree, I find it obscene too. Better to have them feeding pigs and farm animals or rotting peaceably in a compost pile than being exploded in a parking lot. Sorry, but I find this exercise mindless and just proves what a stupid, vapid species we are as a whole.
Just for the record, there used to be a dog sled team that took the pieces that were edible but they haven’t done that for the last couple of years. We are working on someone to come take them in the future but couldn’t get anyone interested this year. If there is a farm that is interested PLEASE call the Museum! The vast majority of the pumpkins we fling are truly rotten, there isn’t any use for them. The carnage doesnt end up in any dump, my team shovels it up and we compost it.
I picked up thrown pumpkins one year that they were all over the street and used them for compost. Couldn’t stand to see them go to waste. Cleaned up the street too, left by mindless idiots.
I picked up broken pumpkin off my street and ditch too . Fruit flies love that stuff . At least the fruit flies show the pumpkin some respect .
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