"Goomba38" > wrote in message
. ..
> Tim C. wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:13:55 +0100, Sacha
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> I must say that I'm still trying to figure out how taking home food
>>> contaminated by dining companions in USA or UK is going to save people
>>> from
>>> starvation in third world countries.
>>
>> lol! I was beginning to wonder too.
>
> Of course it doesn't. What it was was an attempt to instill guilt or
> appreciation about the bounty of food they were lucky enough to have
> enjoyed and how wasting it would be wrong when there are children starving
> in.....<fill in the blank

If used to be common to try to encourage children to eat their meals, to say
that there are people starving in the rest of the world, made us all very
concious of the waste.