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Title: pope says "You're a thief!!!" if you don't clean your plate (my title)
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wasting-food- ... -poor-pope-says-122328292.html
Published: Jun 5, 2013
Author: l
Post Date: 2013-06-05 14:13:12 by PSUSA2
Keywords: None
Views: 485
Comments: 6

Wasting food is like stealing from poor, pope says

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis denounced on Wednesday what he called a "culture of waste" in an increasingly consumerist world and said throwing away good food was like stealing from poor people.

"Our grandparents used to make a point of not throwing away leftover food. Consumerism has made us accustomed to wasting food daily and we are unable to see its real value," Francis said at his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square.

"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry," he said.

Since taking office in March, Pope Francis has said he wants the 1.2-billion-strong Roman Catholic Church to defend the poor and to practice greater austerity itself. He has also made several calls for global financial reform.

Around 1.3 billion metric tonnes (1.43 billion tons) of food, or one third of what is produced for human consumption, gets lost or wasted every year, according to the United Nations' food agency.

In the industrialized world the majority of waste is by consumers, often because they buy too much and have to throw away what they do not manage to eat.

A U.N.-backed study released on Wednesday said simple measures such as better storage and reducing over-sized portions would sharply reduce the vast amount of food going to waste.

In U.S. restaurants, diners wasted nine percent of the meals they bought, partly because of a trend to increase the size of everything from cheeseburgers to soft drinks, said the report by the World Resources Institute and the U.N. Environment Program.

Francis said the "culture of waste" was especially deplorable given the prevalence of hunger in the world. The United Nations says hunger affects some 870 million people, while 2 billion suffer from at least one nutritional deficiency.

The Argentinian-born pontiff warned that too much focus on money and materialism meant financial market dips were viewed as tragedies while human suffering had become normal and ignored.

"In this way people are discarded as if they were garbage," he said.


Poster Comment:

Now about that secret report you're sitting on. Care to discuss that? Didn't think so.

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#1. To: All (#0)

Build a potato gun and you'll GO TO HELL!!!!

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Why should we worship in God what we detest in man? -Robert Ingersoll

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-06-05   14:14:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

Good idea to save leftovers for later and not waste food.

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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC

GreyLmist  posted on  2013-06-05   14:48:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

poppa sucks harder than those who leave some french fries on their plate - details below -

nymag.com/daily/intellige...ial-empire-in-charts.html

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-06-05   18:05:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Lod (#3)

Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion.

L. Ron Hubbard As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978)

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard

The useless symbolism of these rats is really starting to get to me. All the problems out there, many created by religion, and the poop is worried about throwing away leftovers. I wonder what he eats. I wonder what they eat, and drink. how much do they throw away? Not that starvin' Marvins care about caviar and 100+ year old liquor, or Happy Meals to lure children for some Happy Sexy Time.

I'm glad they're on the way out. Can't happen soon enough.

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Why should we worship in God what we detest in man? -Robert Ingersoll

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-06-05   18:26:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

I always gave the food I didn't want to the dog. She'd eat anything, including the delicious candy she found in the cat's litter box.

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2013-06-05   18:46:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Turtle (#5)

I always gave the food I didn't want to the dog.

I'm pretty sure that is a sin.

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Why should we worship in God what we detest in man? -Robert Ingersoll

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-06-05   19:04:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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