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Americans waste enough food to end world hunger http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35884-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-americans-waste-enough-food-to-end-worl

• deelowe 10y ago
  This is a meaningless metric. Food can't be magically shipped to the regions that need it. A better measurement would be waste per capita or farm land utilization.
  • estsauver 10y ago
    The other thing of course to remember is just shipping food out of the US and into the developing world is how you break local farming economies. Who wants to buy food from the local farmer when there's ample free food from relief programs. Development is hard.
    • danjoc 10y ago
      Most of the food wasted is "ugly" food. It's not putting farmers out of business. It could keep starving people alive though.
      • deelowe 10y ago
        Which completely misses the point. To summarize what the parent is suggesting: "Teach a man to fish..."
    • andromeda__ 10y ago
      >Development is hard. It really is. That's what Lothrop Stoddard called 'The Burden Of Civilization'. Essentially, this is to say that, in as much as civilization can be a good thing, it is also very difficult to attain and sustain; some people are willing to push themselves as hard as they can to do this and some people just aren't equipped to handle civilization.
• throwaway198743 10y ago
  India wastes enough food to end hunger in that country. What's your point ?