Food Waste and Hunger Exist Side by Side

[G_j]

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=25343

Food Waste and Hunger Exist Side by Side

Haider Rizvi


NEW YORK, Sep 3 (Tierramérica) - ''Do you want these? They are so fresh,'' says Catherine, holding up a bunch of grapes she just pulled out from one of the trash bags piled up on the sidewalk. ''Take this, man. It's good too,'' adds her friend Morlan, holding out a loaf of bread.



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According to the report, the U.S. and Western European consumers, who constitute only about 12 percent of the world population, are responsible for about 60 percent of consumption of private consumer goods.

By contrast, the people of Latin American and the Caribbean, whose share in the world population is just nine percent, spend only seven percent on non-essential household goods.

''Agriculture, free trade, and intellectual property policies have become a leading edge of the U.S. corporate push for global economic dominance,'' says Kathy McAfee, executive director of the San Francisco-based Institute for Food and Development Policy (better known as Food First).

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[Misinformed01]

1. Kicking to the top

Everyone needs to read this--we waste so much in this country.

[G_j]

2. thanks Misinformed !

Most of us are aware of this, but in our comfort easily forget how insanely out of balance things are.
IMO, fighting hunger would be a much more effective way to fight terror than dropping bombs on and torturing people.

& a BIG :hi:

[kayell]

3. kick

good read

[MrPrax]

4. Not surprising...

We have been brainwashed in believing that the 'price' of things like food is vastly more important than the foodstuff itself...
and that ultimately a 'greater good' is reached by maintaining the 'price' rather than keeping someone fed, which is the purpose for producing the food in the first place...

And this inspite of the fact we profess 2000 year old 'religious' ideologies that continually suggest doing otherwise...

And this inspite of the fact we teach out children the exact opposite every night at the dinner table but say nothing about a system that does the opposite...it consciously 'wastes' food.

Maybe we should send us to bed without dessert...


Decadent, immoral, alienated, arrogant, hypocritical... add your own description of such a culture

[G_j]

5. kick