Ag Secretary to America: Stop Wasting Food, Cut Back Portions

pjmedia.com ^ | 10/4/16 | Bridget Johnson

[ColdOne]

WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said America needs to stop wasting food, even if that means teaching people to cut back on the amount of food on their plates.

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, the former Iowa governor said long-term food insecurity "is a challenge, because we're going to have to increase food production -- I've seen anywhere from 50 to 70 percent in the next 35 years -- to meet a growing world population."

"But the first step, and the one way the USDA can provide help and assistance to meet this need, is to expand on the -- on the issue of food waste," Vilsack said. "A third of the food that we grow, raise and produce in this country is never consumed the way it was intended. It's wasted."

[sport]

Eggzactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rlmorel]

Effing Nanny Statists can EAT MY SHORTS.

[polymuser]

...it’s that there are too many useless eaters.

To globalists, that means retired people, non-workers, the handicapped and undesired pregnancies. They desire 250 million less Americans.

[Twinkie]

Just eat & tell Michelle to MYOB. Feeding kids stuff they
hate just wastes as it gets trashed.

[M Kehoe]

Eat your peas!

FU.

5.56mm

[Grampa Dave]

Elect Illiarily and have no food, no guns and no internet to complain about the first two.

[kaehurowing]

Let them eat cake.

[Bigg Red]

Bingo

[falcon99]

Ya knew this was coming, Libs want to control and tell us how to live our lives. If Hillary is elected you can expect some sort of EO or law about wasting food.

[polymuser]

My hope is for for peas on Earth.

[Carl Vehse]

Hey, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, stop wasting oxygen.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you, Michelle .

BTW, margarine is bad for you.

[Celtic Conservative]

At last they’re high in fiber.

CC

[Jim from C-Town]

Is the entire Obama administration chock full of mental retards?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Are you a useless eater?

Who should decide?

Shall we take a vote?

[Osage Orange]

Why not AG moron to POTUS...stop wasting airplane fuel.

Stop wasting golf time......

[notdownwidems]

Of course, sometimes we had no idea what were eating, esp the weekly mystery meat! We would have been happy to send that to those poor kids.

OMG! St. Patrick's Grade School, Denver Colorado, 1966ish, I trembled in fear every day in my second-grade classroom at the thought of going to the lunch room to eat the dreck they served there. I can still smell it! And the nuns were all about that 'children are starving, aren't you ashamed of wasting all this good food' guilt trip. There were times I pretended to be sick just to get out of going to lunch. It was horrible.

[ozzymandus]

Is this really your job, Vilsack?

[Patriotic1]

Doggy bags!

Plus, if I paid for it, what difference does it make?

And, a lot of waste is in the system itself. Of course, food plowed back into the fields goes back into the cycle.

I really freakin' hate these people.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Ahem.