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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: drypowder
61
posted on
10/04/2016 1:07:27 PM PDT
by
sport
To: ColdOne
Effing Nanny Statists can EAT MY SHORTS.
62
posted on
10/04/2016 1:10:46 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: Jack Black
...its 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.
63
posted on
10/04/2016 1:12:06 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(Enough is enough!)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Just eat & tell Michelle to MYOB. Feeding kids stuff they
hate just wastes as it gets trashed.
64
posted on
10/04/2016 1:12:09 PM PDT
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
To: ColdOne
Eat your peas!
FU.
5.56mm
65
posted on
10/04/2016 1:12:47 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: ColdOne
Elect Illiarily and have no food, no guns and no internet to complain about the first two.
66
posted on
10/04/2016 1:14:56 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(In a time of universal deceit - teIlling the truth is a revolutionary act! George Orwell.)
To: ColdOne
To: Truth29
68
posted on
10/04/2016 1:28:00 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: ColdOne
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.
69
posted on
10/04/2016 1:29:59 PM PDT
by
falcon99
To: M Kehoe
My hope is for for peas on Earth.
70
posted on
10/04/2016 1:33:53 PM PDT
by
polymuser
(Enough is enough!)
To: ColdOne
Hey, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, stop wasting oxygen.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Thank you, Michelle .
BTW, margarine is bad for you.
72
posted on
10/04/2016 1:34:00 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: rlmorel
At last they’re high in fiber.
CC
73
posted on
10/04/2016 1:36:27 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: ColdOne
Is the entire Obama administration chock full of mental retards?
74
posted on
10/04/2016 1:36:43 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Jack Black
Are you a useless eater?
Who should decide?
Shall we take a vote?
75
posted on
10/04/2016 1:38:52 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.)
To: ColdOne
Why not AG moron to POTUS...stop wasting airplane fuel.
Stop wasting golf time......
76
posted on
10/04/2016 1:38:59 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(PNA....my butt)
To: Breyean; All
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.
77
posted on
10/04/2016 1:40:21 PM PDT
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: ColdOne
Is this really your job, Vilsack?
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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.
79
posted on
10/04/2016 1:43:41 PM PDT
by
Patriotic1
(Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
To: ColdOne
Ahem.
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