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US families dump 40% of their food every year, says environmental group
Americans throw away nearly half their food every year, waste worth roughly 165 billion dollars annually or 2.275 dollars per average family, according to a study released on Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defence Council Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesChrist, just think how fat they would be if they ate it all!
Aug 21st, 2012 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ooops.
Typical yanks!!
Aug 21st, 2012 - 10:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Links for blog of the NRDC study:
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.nrdc.org/food/wasted-food.asp
Link to related UK group, “Love Food, Hate Waste”:
http://www.nrdc.org/food/wasted-food.asp
My late mother always used to tell me to eat all my food because there were children in the world in the world who were starving. Now that I am coming close to “old age” do I remember and realise how right she was. It is a crime how much food we in the so called developed world throw away!
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the US government could raise revenue by putting extra tax on food. Therefore US households would only be able to buy smaller portions and there would be less waste.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But then I doubt the US voter would be too pleased with that.
How about this. Tax unhealthy food and use it to subsidise healthy food making it more affordable especially for the poor and low income families.
This will encourage healthy eating, thus reduce obesity, thus reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes and bowel cancer, thus be less if a strain in the country's resources in the long run.
Damn that's such a fine idea I might just run for Parliament and get it introduced in the UK.
Lep,
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That’s the nanny state – don’t like it.
Never forget my first visit to Disneyland, Florida, I was impressed by the number of Electric buggies near the entrance. I mistakenly thought they were for the use of the disabled. Wrong! they were for the use of the obese.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 07:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hahaha I'm with you on that Reality. Same for me first time I went to a US airport. Fleets of buggies so all these fat fu*kers could waddle off the plane and park their lard before gravity overcame them.
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I read somewhere that if we all lived like Americans we'd need 3 planets!
Aug 22nd, 2012 - 10:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#1 Good one =)
you're catching up according to Dr. Fernando Lanas, a professor of medicine at the Universidad de la Frontera in Temuco, Chile. He claims latin americans have an obesity epidemic and 78% of MCI is from obesity. Furthermore 1/3 of SA population has a BMI >30 and Argentine, Chile and Uruguay are the worst and will surpass the USA in the next decade.
Aug 23rd, 2012 - 01:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Body-mass index figures from 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean show that one-third of the population was obese or pre-obese during the 1990s. Haiti was the only exception, with less than 12% of the population falling into those categories. Jamaica ranked highest, with a 33% pre-obesity and 29% obesity rate, according to a study by Manuel Peña, who heads the Peru office of the Pan American Health Organization
(In 2008, more than 30 percent of women in Central and Southern Latin America were obese, according to Finucane’s estimates, and about 25 percent of men in Southern Latin America and 20 percent of men in Central Latin America were obese. PAHO), and Jorge Bacallao of the Institute of Medical Sciences in Havana, Cuba.
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