Posted on 06/20/2015 11:37:13 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Germans throw away 18 million tonnes of perfectly good food every year, a report showed on Thursday.
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) study showed that “on average, we throw away 313 kilos of usable food every second,” WWF expert Tanja Dräger said in Berlin on Thursday.
More than 2.6 million hectares of farmland are being used to produce food “for the bin”, the environmentalists say. …
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We throw away much more corn than that into our gas tanks as alcohol.
Ach, der liebe Gott!
If they paid for it, they could whatever they wanted with it. Is Germany still a free country, or have I missed something?
Sounds like lecture I got from my parents at dinner time in the 60’s
2.6 million hectares
Well, that's what you get for using the metric system!
Was it ever a free country after WWII? Adenauer instituted the social market economy in 1949 there, and the European Union has expanded that to 27 other countries in Europe by treaty, Bismarck-style.
School kids put a billion dollars worth of Mitch’s mandatory school lunches, straight into the cafeteria, garbage cans every year. Thats lots more than 18 tons.
It’s cabbage. Who cares?
"knockverst and sourkruit?"
News Flash; Life imperfect - liberals outraged.
They would be wasting several times that amount, if it weren’t for modern food packaging — packaging that the eco-fascists want to ban.
Who cares?
Frikin busy bodies...
They climbed to the top of the food chain....
If losers from backward ass, paleo world countries can’t get their Shiite together after getting a head start on the rest of us then they should go to bed hungry every night, which apparently isn’t feedback that causes them to move in the right direction...
Funny part is that is my Grandpa’s last name...
How much of the thrown-away food is discarded because of approaching expiry dates?
When the 2008 financial crisis hit Japan, our pastor took my daughter and her husband along to distribute food at a Tokyo park. They got the food free; it was just a day short of expiry dates and would have otherwise been thrown away. The recipients were mostly people who had suddenly lost their jobs.
The EU is big on expiration dates, IIRC. They also had to walk back a lot of other regulations regarding food, especially having to do with food shapes, what names certain foods could be sold under, and a whole host of other draconian stuff. They still have their Common Agricultural Policy in place, though, and micromanage fishing for all the member states.
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