One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal

mimo2005 · 05-19-2008, 08:28 PM

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Food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.
Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen.
In England, a recent study revealed that Britons toss away a third of the food they purchase, including more than four million whole apples, 1.2 million sausages and 2.8 million tomatoes. In Sweden, families with small children threw out about a quarter of the food they bought, a recent study there found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/we...pagewanted=all

bry623 · 05-20-2008, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by WeirdAl

How come you're always such a fussy young man?
Dont want no captain crunch, don't want no raisin bran
Well, don't you know that other kids are starving in japan
So eat it, just eat it

**EnglishPaul** · 05-20-2008, 03:14 PM

Weird Al would be my hero, if I had a hero. Why didn't he run for president?

I was always brought up to finish what was on my plate. It was a throw back to the war (my grandparents era) when food was rashoned. I can't believe we now throw away so much food. And that is out of what is produced for sale. Last time I heard Europe paid to have a surplus of production just so that farmers wouldn't go out of business. Like that would happen in any other industry!

05-20-2008, 03:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
EnglishPaul Still no avatar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1,011 OS: XP SP2	Re: One Country’s Table Scraps, Another Country’s Meal Weird Al would be my hero, if I had a hero. Why didn't he run for president? I was always brought up to finish what was on my plate. It was a throw back to the war (my grandparents era) when food was rashoned. I can't believe we now throw away so much food. And that is out of what is produced for sale. Last time I heard Europe paid to have a surplus of production just so that farmers wouldn't go out of business. Like that would happen in any other industry!