Remember when your mom used to say “Don’t leave food on your plate. There are starving children in China”? I used get smart alecky and tell her my leftovers would all be rotten before they got them to any kids in China. Har.
Well, that’s what the government of Great Britain, which has shown some looney tendencies lately, is saying to its citizens. Like the mommy at the dinner table, the nanny staters in England want you to clean your plate:
The Government is to launch a campaign to stamp out Britain’s waste food mountains as part of a global effort to curb spiralling food prices.
Supermarkets will be urged to drop “three for two” deals on food that encourage shoppers into bulk-buying more than they need, often leading to the surpluses being thrown away. The scandal of the vast mountains of food that are thrown away in Britain while other parts of the world starve is revealed in a Cabinet Office report today. It calls for a reduction in food waste: up to 40 per cent of groceries can be lost before they are consumed due to poor processing, storage and transport.
When are do-gooders going to realize that world hunger is not caused by Western waste but by a Third World enamored of socialism. Dictatorial socialist governments correlate strongly with poverty and hunger. Putting fewer scraps in the garbage here is not going to put more food in the mouth of a hungry child in Africa or Asia.
