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15. July 2009, 09:52:15 Subject: Food and food prices  Dumping of food as a way to manipulate prices is not new and it goes back through history back to Roman times and probably even earlier. Dumping of food as waste has been used as a way to maintain high prices and the 20th century saw a lot of it, specially in the late 1970s and 1980s when there was deflation in world commodity prices. There is a general article on Wikipedia with regards to food waste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_waste According to that article in the UK about 17.6% of the food ends as waste, while in the US 14-15% has been estimated. The situation in many other industrialized countries is not much better. It is terrible considering that one of the latest UN reports estimated that nearly 848 million people in the world are malnourished. http://www.fao.org/newsroom/common/ecg/1000923/en/hungerfigs.pdf 15. July 2009, 09:59:38 Subject: Re: Food and food prices Übergeek 바둑이: Who on earth is wasting our proportion then!! We waste very little, even leftovers from meals we re-use as much as possible.. A dog is a great waste recycler!!  15. July 2009, 10:03:28 Subject: Re: Food and food prices  (V): But I know about Nestle, a other of these nasty swiss companies... 15. July 2009, 10:00:29 Subject: Re: Food and food prices Übergeek 바둑이: I noted down my comment from the radio, but didn't catch the autor of the book discussed. I think the title is something like: uncover the food scandal or similar, a new book. So ... I've no idea what I was talking about 15. July 2009, 10:04:20 Subject: Re: Food and food prices gogul: Such figures though since the recession are to be far from accurate. Less money to waste = less food to waste. Shops now stock less perishables as they know they can't sell so much. 15. July 2009, 10:09:23 Subject: Re: Food and food prices Modified by gogul (15. July 2009, 10:13:42) I see a world without big banking, without raping food suppliers, without abusing pharma. It's there in front of me. Good luck in your trashlife. 15. July 2009, 10:26:11 Subject: Re: Food and food prices gogul: We have as well... It's called fair trade decent income...and fast becoming the established norm. |
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