>
> In the light of what is happening not just in Burma at the moment but in
> many other countries, this is appalling,if not obscene. It shouldn't
> happen. I waste nothing. We don't have left overs. This makes me so angry.
>
> What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
>
> Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment.
> But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m
> bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages
> and 1.3m yoghurts
>
> By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
> Thursday, 8 May 2008
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6qgddu
>
> A new study has exposed the staggering amount of food thrown away every
> day by the British public, calculating that the annual total of wasted ...

> Bobbie wrote:
>

>> In the light of what is happening not just in Burma at the moment but in
>> many other countries, this is appalling,if not obscene. It shouldn't
>> happen. I waste nothing. We don't have left overs. This makes me so angry.

>

>> What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year

>

>> Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment.
>> But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m
>> bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages
>> and 1.3m yoghurts

>

>> By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
>> Thursday, 8 May 2008

>

>>http://tinyurl.com/6qgddu

>

>> A new study has exposed the staggering amount of food thrown away every ...

>On May 8, 3:31 am, "Jean B." rcn.com> wrote:

>> Bobbie wrote:
>>

>>> In the light of what is happening not just in Burma at the moment but in
>>> many other countries, this is appalling,if not...

> On May 8, 3:31 am, "Jean B." rcn.com> wrote:

>> Bobbie wrote:
>>

>>> In the light of what is happening not just in Burma at the moment but in
>>> many other countries, this is appalling,if not obscene. It shouldn't
>>> happen. I waste nothing. We don't have left overs. This makes me so angry.
>>> What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
>>> Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment.
>>> But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m
>>> bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages
>>> and 1.3m yoghurts
>>> By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent
>>> Thursday, 8 May 2008
>>> http://tinyurl.com/6qgddu
>>> A new study has exposed the staggering amount of food thrown away every
>>> day by the British public, calculating that the annual total of wasted
>>> products adds up to a record £10bn.
>>> Each day, according to the government-backed report, Britons throw away
>>> 4.4 million apples, 1.6 million bananas, 1.3 million yoghurt pots, ...

> My sis told me that where she lives, homeless folk and the like, sorta
> know when to go to the back door of restaurants, and the cooks will hand
> out leftovers to them. It is proably illegal. I know the city school
> system here has a rule that all left over food has to be destroyed. I
> would guess there is a similar law for restaurants. They can't give
> food to shelters, here either. '
> Somehow the govt. surplus cheese can be sold to the poor, though. I
> don't know how it works. I just know the recipients of the cheese will
> take it and sell it to folks who can't buy it otherwise. It is said to
> be very good cheese.
> Once when my sis was confined to house by her health, the handyman she
> had previously hired would come to her door and hand her a bag of rolls
> or some other food he had gotten out the back door of a restaurant where
> he knew the cooks. She said sometimes the rolls woudl still be warm.
> It all depends on how hungry you are, whether to eat the food or not.
>
> Some folks know there are too many useless laws already, thus opine that
> laws are made to be broken. musicians and artists are not too
> picky blake ...

> It's unfair, assuredly, but how will we go about moving and
> distributing food to places where there is scarcity?

> And is their scarcity also not a logical consequence of over
> population?

>
> In the light of what is happening not just in Burma at the moment but in
> many other countries, this is appalling,if not obscene. It shouldn't
> happen. I waste nothing. We don't...

> Our state just made a law that restaurants and that no longer have to
> throw unused food away, we now can give it to shelters and other places
>
> Bobbie wrote:

>>
>> In the light of...