Brown calls on Britons to cut food wastage

Britons can help bring food prices down by cutting the amount they waste every year, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday.

Brown was speaking to reporters traveling to the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Japan where the rich nations' club is meeting to discuss rising fuel and food prices as well as global warming.

"If we're to get food prices down, we must do more to deal with unnecessary demand by all of us doing more to cut our food waste which is costing the average household in Britain about eight pounds per week," said Brown.