Let’s Praise—not Criticize—Food Packaging

Food packaging touches each of us every day. Because of food packaging, starvation and hunger are infrequent in industrialized societies, and very few of us in Westernized environs have to engage in the daily agonies of providing for ourselves. Packaging is the key link in the supply chain that delivers nutrition and food quality, safely, with diversity, and for pleasure.

Food packaging is so critical that we would not be able to survive without it. Nevertheless, there are those who do not like f…