"Sqwertz" > ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Steve Pope > wrote:
>
>> Pradeep S. Mehta, secretary general of the center for
>> international trade, economics and the environment of
>> CUTS International, an independent research institute
>> based here, said that if Americans slimmed down to the
>> weight of middle-class Indians, many hungry people in
>> sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plates.
>
> **** 'em. If they want to come over here and dig through our
> garbage for the scraps, then let them. Otherwise their food
> problems are their own problems.

This is a stereotypical American statement and is the perfect expression of
what is known as the Ugly American these days. It is also immoral even to
non-religious.

Give me one reason why you should throw away food grown using finite
resources such as petroleum and thus put food out of the reach of any other
human being who is willing to work for his food?

India may have some rich people, but they do not have the richest on the
planet. They have plenty of poor, too. The point is not India, but
everybody who will shortly not be able to eat properly to support good
health, in every country including yours, because of waste. It isn't just
the USA, either. It was written that one-third of food in the UK was thrown
away, too.