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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Cold spaghetti or rigatoni for me!
I wish these yobs would shut up already
What does he mean, not enough food?
Hell we raise so much food we have mountains of surplus.
We convert our crops to meat, using anywhere from 2 to 4 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of meat. And we STILL have way too much.
Then we export mountains of grain and boatloads of meat, and we STILL have way to much.
So we burn our surplus to fuel our cars, heat our homes, and we STILL have way too much.
For the last 75 years we’ve shown the entire world how to raise more food than can be eaten.
For all that they’ve mocked and hated us.
Let the bastards of the world starve to death.
I am by no means wealthy, but compared to most in this economy I am very stable, so I BBQ ENORMOUS AMOUNTS, so friends and relatives can take lots of food home.
I work so much that by far the bulk of my pay is overtime.
Some perks are cars, vacations and that I have not paid for gas for years, but my job can be gone tomorrow like anyone elses.
Charity used to be coupled with penalties for bad behavior. This worked to cut down on the level of behaviors which wound up requiring charity. Chief among the behaviors which were penalized was the practice of having kids outside of marriage.
The modern welfare system acts to facilitate bad behavior, until the number of badly behaving people overwhelms the capacity of the system. For women, this meant that they found a man able and willing to support a family. Failing that, there was always the convents.
Go to a restaurant and just split an appetizer. But do it outside of the dinner rush.
The whole premise of berating people who are "wasting" food, is the idea that someone cannot do what he wants with food that he has purchased. I buy food, I generally don't waste it, but I will decide what happens with what I buy.
As I said up-thread, the problem isn't a lack of food. There is plenty of food. The problem is the existence of people who have nothing of value to exchange for the food which others have worked to produce.
I recall the term “clean your plate” when I was a kid. My dad taught us to use a slice of bread to literally mop up any remaining remnants of food on the plate. Our family had zero food waste from the table.
To this day I enjoy doing this, especially when there is gravy involved.
Then he needs to tell libs to embrace GMO crops that increase yield to meet demand with less water, disease loss and pest loss.
Translation:
We are global communists, and you will all learn to subsist on the barest minimum we the elites allow you to have.
“Personally, if I found a restaurant that served half of what most do and charged me less for it, I’d eat out more often.”
The food itself is too cheap to have a significant effect on the price. Most of the price is for the restaurant building itself, the staff, the food prep, and other non-food expenses.
We live in a time that has never existed before in all of human history; cheap food, cheap to the point most Americans can say it’s nearly free.
Nature’s waste is enormous. I waste as much stuff as I can.
Yes we have “fat poor” an impossibility in every age but this one!
I can get USDA Prime steaks at Costco and make them at home with baked potatoes, for less than what it would cost to eat hamburgers at a restaurant.
I like people, even poor people, so I contribute happily to food banks and give canned goods to the people who collect on behalf of needy people outside supermarkets. Maybe it’ll buy me a minute in heaven, maybe it’ll buy me good luck when I’m in hard times myself and, maybe, it just makes me feel happy to lend a helping hand. It’s called private charity and it is a very good thing.
My wife works at a grammar school cafeteria. She estimates at least 50%. They must serve the food. Even is a kid doesn’t want it or like it.
I have the wait staff cut the meal in half before I begin, and place the doggie bag in my purse and then eat the rest of the meal.
Then I have lunch.
Ummmmm, I believe said poster was speaking of a government decree, not a physician.
Haha. Indeed.
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