A
report issued Thursday charges that
$500 million of American food assistance--a large part of American foreign policy--is wasted annually due to red tape and American agribusiness profit. According to Oxfam America and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an additional 17 million hungry people could have been fed by U.S. food assistance programs in 2010, alone. This is food waste that would have been offered at no extra cost to taxpayers who front the cost of foreign aid. With
30 to 40 percent of
food in America already
wasted, this is a ridiculous practice that has got to stop. Unfortunately too many special interests from big agriculture to shipping companies have a stake in this wasteful game.
Read the full article on
Inhabitat.
Photo courtesy
Wikipedia.
About The Author
Leon Kaye
Leon Kaye is the founder and editor of GreenGoPost.com and its advisory division,
GGP Media.
Contact him to discuss how he can work with your organization or event.
His focus is making the business case for sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR).
He writes for San Francisco-based
Triple Pundit,
Inhabitat and now
The Guardian, for which he writes about corporate responsibility, water, and green building. He has also written for AIA's
Architect Magazine.
Leon works out of Fresno and Silicon Valley, California, and when he has free time, he enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, weightlifting, and planning his next trip to one of the 60 countries he has visited. He has an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC) and Cal State-Fresno.
A report issued Thursday charges that $500 million of American food assistance--a large part of American foreign policy--is wasted annually due to red tape and American agribusiness profit. According to Oxfam America and the American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an additional 17 million hungry people could have been fed by U.S. food assistance programs in 2010, alone. This is food waste that would have been offered at no extra cost to taxpayers who front the cost of foreign aid. With 30 to 40 percent of food in America already wasted, this is a ridiculous practice that has got to stop. Unfortunately too many special interests from big agriculture to shipping companies have a stake in this wasteful game.
Read the full article on Inhabitat.
Photo courtesy Wikipedia.
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