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To: haffast

None of my family members are overweight, and I doubt that anyone in my family wastes enough food for even a small meal in the course of a week (or two). “Stealing from the poor” is a little harsh, but buying excess and then wasting that food increases demand, which does reduce what the very poor can afford to buy.


21 posted on 06/06/2013 5:42:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Pollster1
buying excess and then wasting that food increases demand, which does reduce what the very poor can afford to buy.

In a free market, the increased demand would lead to more of a commodity being produced as suppliers competed to meet the demand.

Hunger in the modern world is the result of the political decisions made in the areas where it is a problem. It is not a supply/demand problem and it has no relation to the waste of food in prosperous societies--that is just silly.

22 posted on 06/06/2013 5:51:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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