Posted on 11/04/2007 5:45:40 AM PST by period end of story
LONDON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- British Environment Minister Joan Ruddock has warned citizens that by not eating leftover food, they are effectively causing climate change.
Ruddock said that through food waste and excessive shopping, British citizens were paying a significant cost in both environmental and financial terms, The Independent reported Friday.
"At this rate we will not have a place to live which is habitable if we don't address climate change globally and the U.K. has to make its contribution," she said of such social problems.
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I’m doing my part. I seldom leave any leftovers.
“Eat your leftovers or the starving people in China will, um, get warmer.”
Ah, yes. The undeserving commoners being able to go out and purchase affordable luxuries. How bourgeoisie. Mustn't let the common riff-raff out of their place, don't y'know old chap.
I find it almost hypnotic in it's fascination... the way western civilization is moving back to totalitarianism virtually without a demur from the future serfs. Except this time it's the totalitarianism of the bureaucrat... a evil far more heartless and vicious than even the medieval aristocracy. Pip pip!
First thing to pop into my mind was one of Wierd Al’s greatest moments:
How come you’re always such a fussy young man,
Don’t want no Captain Crunch, don’t want no Raisin Bran,
Well don’t you know that other kids are starving in Japan,
So eat it, just eat it.
Don’t want to argue, I don’t want to debate
Don’t want to hear about what kind of food you hate.
You won’t get no desert till you clean off your plate.
So eat it.
Don’t tell me you’re full
Just eat it, eat it,
Get yourself an egg and beat it.
Have some more chicken, have some more pie
It doesn’t matter if it’s broiled or fried
Just eat it, eat it, just eat it, eat it,
Just eat it, eat it, just eat it, eat it.
Your table manners are a crying shame
Your playin’ with your food, this ain’t some kind of game.
Now if you starve to death you’ll just have yourself to blame.
So eat it, just eat it.
You better listen, better do what you’re told,
You haven’t even touched your tuna casserole,
You better chow down or it’s gonna get cold,
So eat it.
I don’t care if you’re full
Just eat it, eat it.
Open up your mouth and feed it.
Have some more yogurt, have some more Spam,
It doesn’t matter if it’s fresh or canned
Just eat it, eat it
Don’t you make me repeat it.
Have a banana, have a whole bunch,
It doesn’t matter what you had for lunch
Just eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it,
eat it, eat it, eat it, eat it.
Just eat it, eat it,
If it’s getting cold reheat it
Have a big dinner, have a light snack,
If you don’t like it you can’t send it back.
Just eat it, eat it
Get yourself an egg and beat it.
Have some more chicken, have some more pie
It doesn’t matter if it’s broiled or fried
Just eat it, eat it,
Don’t you make me repeat it.
speechless
“Ah, yes. The undeserving commoners being able to go out and purchase affordable luxuries. How bourgeoisie. Mustn’t let the common riff-raff out of their place, don’t y’know old chap.”
The solution? Let me guess. A food tax? Or, would you prefer, taxeing thrown out food?
Are these people real???
Does it escape the minister that if we eat all of our leftovers, we have nothing available to feed the animals we grow to eat and must destroy rainforests to grow food for them, so we may have leftovers?
It was easier for my parents to just say finish your plate, people in China are starving. That was well over 50 years ago. If they are still starving, we could ship all the leftovers to them, but that would require using more fossil fuels and contributing to global warming as well.
Sometimes, you just have to think it’s all hype!
If you don’t eat your meat, how can you have any pudding?
I’m a Floydian: I admit it.
Yep, really stoopid.
Well, then, they should send their left-overs to the starving children in Africa.
Food ping.
Causes cancer....
Leftovers? What's a leftover? Is that what the kids get to before I get to eat?
Absolutely right. We’d all be better off with King George the 3rd than King Al or Queen Hillary.
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