How many resources would be saved if Campbell's stopped making soup?

[Rabrrrrrr]

I was just watching a show on FOOD, and they were showing the Campbell's soup company in Texas - 33 acres of factory, making billions of cans of soup a year.

Now, imagine that the factory wasn't there, and that land was allowed to be used for something good.

And now imagine that we weren't digging the billion pounds or whatever of steel that gets dug up every year for making cans.

And now imagine we weren't wasting all that fuel needed to create the soups, create the metals, create the labels, then ship what amounts to 90% water all over the country and the world.

And now imagine our landfills free of all that material that gets used once, and then disposed of (though I say that knowing that in many areas, the cans will be recycled).

If people made homemade soup... how much would that save, resource-wise? Of course, homemade requries resources as well, but I bet the total cost, resource-wise, is FAR lower for the home cook.

[Deja Q]

1. Our entire society is here-now-faster-want- here-now-faster-want...

If you can call it a society... common sense and humanity are outmoded concepts.

[democracyindanger]

2. Um...they don't ship what amounts to 90% water.

Directions: Add one can of water. :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. The cans are still mostly water

If they'd even ship the shit as dehyrdated ingredients, that would save an IMMENSE amount of resources.

And it would still taste the same.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. The red and white ink mining industry alone would collapse

[GOPisEvil]

5. Fuck Campbell's!!

Sorry bastards bought out Pace Picante sauce and closed the San Antonio plant, and moved to this other plant that you mention. I knew two people that lost their jobs, good manufacturing jobs when that plant closed. So fuck Campbell's. Progresso is better canned soup anyway. x(

Oh, and I do make my own soup, unless I'm on death's doorstep, in which case I crack open a can.