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Ag Secretary to America: Stop Wasting Food, Cut Back Portions
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/4/16 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 10/04/2016 12:31:42 PM PDT by 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."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: agsecretary; bho44; bhoag; bhousda; foodpolice; foodportions; foodsupply; foodwaste; nannystate; usda; vilsack
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Never EVER eat margarine, that stuff is bad for you. Of course the potato is also double plus un-good.


121 posted on 10/04/2016 2:38:07 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: PapaBear3625

Hmmm...perhaps a little blood-thirsty for a thread about what to do with leftovers...


122 posted on 10/04/2016 2:38:11 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Glad2bnuts

Why are potatoes “bad for you”? They managed to sustain the Irish for a century. God bless the tatie!


123 posted on 10/04/2016 2:39:32 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: PapaBear3625
Historically, our ancestors survived if they lived the natural virtues of productive work, reproductive success, and cooperation. The plain unromantic cultivation of diligence,frugality and sobriety --- together with close-knit ties with kin and tribe and neighbors --- plus not killing your kids: this led to surviving and thriving across generations.

The "conquer or die" thing is not the whole story, or even most of the story. To center on it seems a view unenlightened by grace. But it's a losing proposition: clutching your prepper foods or not. Shooting down the Mongol horde or not. Anything you do, you die.

Without grace, you generally get hell here as well as hereafter. It's not a good way to live, and as a way to die, a guaranteed total loss.

124 posted on 10/04/2016 2:40:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Some learn by readin'... Some by seein'.. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.)
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To: bgill

In my house, it gets thrown out if it goes bad. Red meat, cut off the bad portion and eat it. I do all the time, and haven’t gotten sick yet. I used to work in a restaurant and you wouldn’t believe what the burger looked like that we used for taco meat. Cheese, the mold is natural. Cut it off and eat the good.


125 posted on 10/04/2016 2:42:29 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: ColdOne

and most of the waste is from mooche’s school lunch program . . . . . .


126 posted on 10/04/2016 2:44:37 PM PDT by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: NEMDF

Then cut back all the EBT funds by 30%,

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Make it 100% or prove to me where any of it is constitutional.


127 posted on 10/04/2016 2:45:40 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

You are correct, but it is not my job to feed the hungry 10,000 miles away. It is my job to take care of my family, my neighbors and as many as I can. There is no following of Christs example by gathering involuntary taxes, taking a cut off the top, and “giving to the needy”.


128 posted on 10/04/2016 2:46:02 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

You know, I used to think about prepping. But when you look at Venezuela and communist countries, you realize the futility of that. They basically shoot preppers and steal the food. Commies are no fools; just evil.


129 posted on 10/04/2016 2:46:28 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: Glad2bnuts

That is always a problem when Caesar steps in where the church ought to be (and 1 mile or 10,000 would mean squat).

But if I were bishop, I’d be asking the church whether this scene suggests that a “hole” where Christ ought to be is getting filled due to a “vacuum” in it, and saying hint hint hint hint hint!


130 posted on 10/04/2016 2:49:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: miss marmelstein

In a very long term situation, it is difficult.


131 posted on 10/04/2016 2:49:41 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ColdOne

Vilsack ain’t exactly slim.


132 posted on 10/04/2016 2:49:54 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: BBell

Dump Michelle O's school lunch menues.
133 posted on 10/04/2016 2:50:17 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
...if I found a restaurant that served half of what most do and charged me less for it, I'd eat out more often.

Yes, me too. There are some that do, but with limited selections. Our super-sized portions are pretty stupid, actually. And people with those 'bubba mugs'...really??

134 posted on 10/04/2016 2:53:48 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: ColdOne

I thought this was going to be about the amount of food stamps given out and the number of very obese people getting them.


135 posted on 10/04/2016 2:55:48 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: miss marmelstein
My bk’fast is leftovers from the night before

Cold pizza is the perfect breakfast food!

136 posted on 10/04/2016 2:59:55 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: ColdOne
WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said America THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT needs to stop wasting food MONEY, even if that means teaching people BUREAUCRATS to cut back on the amount of food on their plates WASTE IN THEIR DEPARTMENT'S BUDGETS.

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, the former Iowa governor said long-term food CASH insecurity "is a challenge, because we're going to have to increase food CASH 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 Federal Government can provide help and assistance to meet this need, is to expand on the -- on the issue of food MONEY waste," Vilsack said. "A third of the food MONEY that we grow, raise and produce EARN in this country is never consumed LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE PRODUCERS the way it was intended. It's wasted."

137 posted on 10/04/2016 3:00:24 PM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: PapaBear3625
You like the idea of aggressive warfare fueled by plunder, killing all the males and keeping the women and children as sex slaves and servitors? Really?

This section of Deuteronomy, if you left off the label, would strike most people as a likely pericope from the Koran. Fits in perfectly with the ethic of Muhammad and the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and their successors.

In the full sweep of of Hebrew scriptures, it ends up showing the ultimate futility of a desert raider-wsrlord ethic, and the need of a divine Savior.

Which I think is pretty much the point of the Old Testament.


It would be nice to get back to the topic of this thread --- wasting food --- from which we went far astray.

My own observation on that is, I don't trust the utter and complete sincerity of anyone who natters on about wasting food and fuel, who still engages in air travel.

That includes Mr. Ag Sec'y Vilsack and all his class, and yes, the pope!

138 posted on 10/04/2016 3:03:33 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("It is better to be slapped with the Truth than kissed with a Lie." - Russian Proverb)
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To: VTenigma

Right, that’s how she became known as Skid Crow! ugh


139 posted on 10/04/2016 3:10:36 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: ColdOne

How about we stop diverting most of the US corn crop to the production of ethanol fuels that nobody wants.

How about that, Tom...


140 posted on 10/04/2016 3:12:52 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (The 2nd Amendment immediately follows the 1st because some people are hard of hearing...)
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