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Originally Posted by peaceandlove
Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food 
Tuesday, Nov. 24, …
Editorial Director
LiveScience.com – Thu Nov 26, 9:46 am ET
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.
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Yes, you have perfectly right. When I was living in Canada, going to friends, they were in preparation of going shopping, so they were throwing away more than half of their fridge content.
I think this is a lack of planning, a lack of spending discipline and an impulsive buying habit. Also I observe people are buying issues with different validity periods, but eating them in a random way, regardless the order it became expired. So, many issues will be thrown away.
This crisis and recession will make people more responsible, will make them think about what they are doing and will wake up their survival skills which were asleep.
Also, do not forget that the Elites will make the price of food to rise, 5 to 10 folds in the next year. Imagine then, what will happen!
A more wise attitude about the food storage, food consumption and long term storage, must be the most serious preoccupation for any family, even living in US, Afghanistan, Argentina or Romania, in the next period!
Take example from Amish and from LDS (Last Day Saints). Their house will never consider safe if they would not offer the food and other basics for at least a year for all the house members. This is planning and survival ideology. Be sure, that these people learned how to use efficiently the food and even the scraps that are fed to animals, so is a whole of efficiency.
In truth, the waste what is going now, will be like a punishment for us, for the future times of scarcity that will come!