Happy Super Bowl everybody! This morning my friends and family came over bearing tons of super bowl snacks. Being that there were only 6 of us it seemed that, like every year, there was way too much food for us to possibly finish. I had never really thought about this during previous super bowls but this year all I could think about was the novel Ishmael. "The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn´t massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one, not to satisfy its hatred for gazelles but to satisfy its hunger..." (Quinn, pgs 117-118). Why do we as a taker society feel that we need to overindulge in almost every aspect of our lives? We are having a fairly small get together that lasts about 4 hours, are two  buckets of chicken wings, pizzas, sodas, and never ending bags of chips etc. really necessary in order for us to have a good time? Now that the game is over we still have bowls and bowls of uneaten food, most of which will be going in the trash. In a country where we have an abundant amount of food how is it that there are still people going hungry? Ishmael said, "The rule there [natural community] is: Take what you need, and leave the rest alone" (Quinn, pg 127). When are we going to take this rule to heart...