Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Ag Secretary to America: Stop Wasting Food, Cut Back Portions
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/4/16 | Bridget Johnson

Posted on 10/04/2016 12:31:42 PM PDT by ColdOne

WASHINGTON -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said America needs to stop wasting food, even if that means teaching people to cut back on the amount of food on their plates.

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, the former Iowa governor said long-term food insecurity "is a challenge, because we're going to have to increase food production -- I've seen anywhere from 50 to 70 percent in the next 35 years -- to meet a growing world population."

"But the first step, and the one way the USDA can provide help and assistance to meet this need, is to expand on the -- on the issue of food waste," Vilsack said. "A third of the food that we grow, raise and produce in this country is never consumed the way it was intended. It's wasted."

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: agsecretary; bho44; bhoag; bhousda; foodpolice; foodportions; foodsupply; foodwaste; nannystate; usda; vilsack
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-182 next last
To: bgill

If you want to know about restaurant waste, talk to state and federal health and safety regulators. Then ex-Mayor Bloomberg who managed to pass a law that forbade healthy, good leftover food from being distributed to the poor and needy.

Also, blame the ill-design of modern day refrigerators in which it’s easy for food to be forgotten in dark crispers and dark corners at the back, behind the pickle jar.


41 posted on 10/04/2016 12:49:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

"Shut-Up, Tom, I'll Tell Them What To Eat!"

42 posted on 10/04/2016 12:50:38 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bloody Sam Roberts

This all started in the 90s, as I recall, the mega portion sizes. Food was cheap and restaurants wanted to cut prices without having to reduce revenue, so they started charging the same and giving much much more food.


43 posted on 10/04/2016 12:52:33 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

This is a complete joke. We could grow a lot more food if market forces demanded it.


44 posted on 10/04/2016 12:53:33 PM PDT by Stingray51
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: polymuser

Which is the root of scads of problems.

It isn’t that terribly daunting to produce more food in a land like this one, even if everybody waddled around like Henry the Hippo.

A lot of people eat too much because of misery. And misery comes from living life wrong in a way that has vastly more to do than calories.


45 posted on 10/04/2016 12:53:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Glad2bnuts

There are two extremes which defy the bible, and you have plunged out of one into the other. Not every neediness situation is a laziness situation.


46 posted on 10/04/2016 12:55:09 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

I thought we had an obesity problem in this country. Apparently not, what with Tom Vilsack berating people to clean their plates.


47 posted on 10/04/2016 12:55:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

Next step, ration cards.


48 posted on 10/04/2016 12:56:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I have to agree with him on this. Just have a look at the portions served in restaurants. Bigger is better I guess.

I, for one intensely dislike eating out for that reason, but, that said, have you ever tried shopping and cooking for one? Next to impossible without the kind of wastage that Vilsack is decrying.

This isn't by choice, as those of us who live singly have few options available to us...

the infowarrior

49 posted on 10/04/2016 1:00:50 PM PDT by infowarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

Instead of EBT cards, the “folks” should be given seeds for growing Victory Gardens like in the days of yore. Seriously.

What is grown in the garden (requires WORK!) is better for the junk-in-the-trunk types than boxes of Mac ‘n Cheese, chips, soft drinks etc. that I see in a lot of the peeps grocery carts.


50 posted on 10/04/2016 1:02:22 PM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne

America to Ag Secretary - EAT ME


51 posted on 10/04/2016 1:02:31 PM PDT by Jolla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: VTenigma

Telling us to buy and eat less food. Yeah, that’ll go over well with the folks back in Iowa!


52 posted on 10/04/2016 1:03:14 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

Comment #53 Removed by Moderator

To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I agree restaurant portions are just too big. We are good at bringing the leftovers home, but still end up throwing too much out.

Instead of hectoring people he could start with the government. Repeal Moochelle's school program that makes schools cook food the kids don't want and throw out. Repeal the subsidy programs that distort markets. Repeal the ethanol mandate so we again treat corn like food. If he really wants to get down in the weeds he could look at local health department mandates that require restaurants and caterers to throw out so much uneaten food.

54 posted on 10/04/2016 1:03:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Mrs. Don-o

55 posted on 10/04/2016 1:05:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes, indeed. Comfort food. We didn’t use to be so overweight in general. The greatly increased empty corn syrup and corn starch content in our processed foods is awful. Doesn’t satiate the appetite like proteins, fats and complex carbs. All the muffin mamas and pudgy boys I see now is sad.


56 posted on 10/04/2016 1:05:25 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne
This sounds like Vilsack is warning us to prepare for a coming and massive food shortage that will occur in this country. Could this have anything to do with the UN’s Agenda 21/30 goal to depopulate the world by war and mass starvation?
57 posted on 10/04/2016 1:05:29 PM PDT by drypowder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jack Black
It’s not that there isn’t enough food, it’s that there are too many useless eaters.

Anyone who would use the term "useless eater", has an extremely high probability rate of being exactly that...

the infowarrior

58 posted on 10/04/2016 1:06:39 PM PDT by infowarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Puppage
Sooo, can carbohydrate credits be far behind?

Prescient!

59 posted on 10/04/2016 1:07:14 PM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: ColdOne
Yeah, and you better eat your peas too, or I'm telling!
60 posted on 10/04/2016 1:07:16 PM PDT by laweeks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-182 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson