I’d never really thought about it until I saw picture of La Tomatina, an annual tomato fight in an Italian town that’s become a huge festivity. Seeing all the revelers and the town’s streets smeared with tomatos purely for the sake of “fun” seems like such a waste when there are people going hungry. (I know, logistically, there’s probably no way to actually ship the tomatos anywhere and they were probably grown just for the tomato fight anyway, but the scale of the waste bothers me.)