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U.S. residents are wasting food like never before.
While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year.
The study finds that about 40 percent of all the food produced in the United States is tossed out.
Meanwhile, while some have plenty of food to spare, a recent report by the Department of Agriculture finds the number of U.S. homes lacking "food security," meaning their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year.
About 1 billion people worldwide don't have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program.
8 years of Bush has made our mentality one of waste, while untold millions suffer from hunger.
While I agree that we are a wasteful country when it comes to food, I don't agree that Bush or politics in general has anything to do with it. Our wasteful tread has been growing for decades. One of the reasons is we have a society filled with kids who won't eat leftovers and parents who let them get away with that. As consumers we also over buy at the supermarket, causing food to perish before it can get used up.We can blame the success of the advertising industry for that. We're also an impulsive nation and will go out to eat or get take-out when we have food sitting home that should be used up because working families are often too tired to cook.
I blame the evil corporations that engineered and perpetuate consumerism. They more people waste, the more they buy and the more money they make.
There's your boogey man, folks.
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