Waste

(I’m in bed sick with a sore throat: hence the increased blogging level this morning).

The Times has a scary picture illustrating how much food the average US family throws out each month. It’s quite staggering. It’s certainly more than my family eats in a week, and perhaps closer to what we consume in two weeks.

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Meanwhile, famine looms in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. And “growth of the global food supply has slowed even as the population has continued to increase” while the US “is in the midst of slashing, by as much as 75 percent, its $59.5 million annual support for a global research network that focuses on improving crops vital to agriculture in poor countries.”

Back to that average 122 pounds of food thrown out per family per month: I always boggle at these stats because since my family throws out very little food (we eat left-overs for lunch, most days) that must mean that other families throw out more. For a supposedly religious nation the population of the US seems to think little about others.

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