Garbology Chapter 3

   Chapter 3 of Garbology was very interesting, I love that in this chapter it got into detail about the different ways of getting rid of the trash such as the pigs. They used the pigs as a tool to eat the garbage which seemed like a great idea but as I was reading that part of the chapter, I kept thinking to myself, how is this going to last? Isn't this harming the pigs? Wouldn't this effect not only the pigs health but our health too? As I kept reading I was soon to find out that it was harming us, the humans, just as much as the pigs. The zoology chief, Willard H. Wright was explaining how most of the population was feeding the pigs their trash. Swine flu began to grow as did other diseases because the meat of the pigs were in fact toxic. By keeping the pig trash eating idea they thought they would cook the pig very well before selling and buying the pig but as it turns out money became a huge factor. Then again isn't it always a big factor. I got so tired of reading all these different ideas to benefit the lessening of our trash being cut out or even banned by insufficient funds. It aggravates me to think that we as Americans make millions of billions of dollars on the "new" products out there but we can't save money to find an easy way to get rid of trash. In my opinion I think that Humes is trying to state exactly that. He writes about all these ideas that we have thought of but cut out because of financial matters. Is he trying to say that we should just follow through with one and just give up the money? Even if I am way off of what he is trying to state in some weird way I feel as if my opinion can be right in some sort. He states also in chapter 3 how the incinerators became too expensive as well, and well that one seems understandable to shut down due to heavy effect on our fragile environment. I learned a lot in this chapter and I am beginning to grow stronger on my on voice of the problem of trash.