Brown urges us to waste less food

[macgardener]

Oh, and I meant to say, marketing people are not my favourite people, to put it politely.
I've seen people on some Aussie forums calling supermarkets stupidmarkets.

[Andrea]

I wonder if food waste has gone down as the price has gone up?

[prashamk]

That is a good topic. I am sure it would have gone down. Moreover now a days people want to extract every bit of energy even from waste (methane). So even though there may be some wastage, it may not be all that harmful.

[screener]

I think it depends on where you are, In Canada food was about 9 % of a families budget and a large portion of that was on restaurant meals. The few percentage points it's gone up here won't mean that much to people who can afford to throw away computers, tvs, living room sets, just because they can afford new ones.

Perhaps I'm being pessimistic. may I be proved wrong.

[Cricket Tragic]

Don't blame us for galloping food prices

The UK Times response to Brown's comments about how to manage increasing food prices. "It is not our fault, it is all the fault of those Asians who want to eat as well as we do?" [paraphrased of course]

Don't blame us for galloping food prices | Carl Mortished - Times Online