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Japanese dispose one-fourth of available food
(Asianewsnet)
Updated: 2008-07-03 16:38 Partly due to an increase in the world's population, food prices through 2017 are predicted to rise by 20 per cent to 80 per cent compared with the past decade. It might be possible to live without electricity, but nobody can live without food. If the scramble to obtain food intensifies, it will be impossible to maintain peace in the world. The Yomiuri Shimbun article series described an experiment in which food canned 25 years ago was eaten by reporters. Although the canned food tasted terrible, it did not harm the participants' health. Two of the five reports who participated in the experiment said they would not dispose of a can of food made 13 years ago. Human beings invented an excellent method to store food more than 200 years ago. Even if expiration dates have passed, I wish people would check foods with their tongues and noses before disposing of them. It is possible that in poor countries, people may kill each other scrambling for a single can of food. The international community is united in its promotion of energy-saving measures to combat global warming. But wasteage of foods in large quantities has not been made a global issue. Leaders of wealthy countries who will soon gather at the Group of Eight summit in Toyakocho, Hokkaido, would be advised to discuss this issue. |
