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The fridge is considered a necessity. It has been so since the 1960s when
packaged food first appeared with the label: "store in the
refrigerator." In my fridgeless Fifties childhood, I was fed
well and healthily. The milkman came daily, the grocer, the butcher, the baker,
and the ice-cream man delivered two or three times a week. The Sunday meat would
last until Wednesday and surplus bread and milk became all kinds of cakes.
Nothing was wasted and we were never troubled by rotten food. Thirty years on,
food deliveries have ceased, fresh vegetables are almost unobtainable in the
country. The invention of the fridge contributed comparatively
little to the art of food preservation. A vast variety of well-tried techniques
already existed--natural cooling, drying, smoking, slating, sugaring,
bottling... What refrigeration did promote was
marketing--marketing hardware and electricity, marketing soft drinks, marketing
dead bodies of animals around the globe in search of a good price.
Consequently, most of the world’s fridges are to be found, not in the
tropics where they might prove useful, but in the wealthy countries with mild
temperatures where they are climatically almost unnecessary. Every winter,
millions of f-ridges hum away continuously, and at vast expanse, busily
maintaining an artificially-cooled space inside an artificially-heated
house--while outside, nature provides the desired temperature free of
charge. The fridge’s effect upon the environment has been
evident, while its contribution to human happiness has been insignificant. If
you don’t believe me, try it yourself. Invest in a food cabinet and turn off
your fridge next winter. You may miss the hamburgers but at least you’ll get
ride of that terrible hum. If you stop using the fridge, at least you won’t be troubled by the noise______