| Show wastefulness OF AMERICANS r food ad ta thrown rown awny that would anis sn tain millions of people the moc most t conspicuous thing in a all 11 of my by travels remarked the globe lobe trotter well ive been pretty much over the world in my time arid and ive seen quite a bite bit but I 1 know I 1 shall you when I 1 say cay that the thing which has bas impressed me moot moist Is the economy of food abroad and the waste of food it at home bome understand nil all this state statement implies absolutely nothing isi is thrown away or wasted in continental europe and the economy of food Is more marked in china japan and the asiatic countries there Is no doubt in ray mind but that we in the united states stated waste more food in a year than Is consumed in france in the same time what a tingle single new york servant gill ill slams elaina into the garbage barrel every week would support a dozen chinese famines families and yet our people are always complaining of hard times and cre are making wry faces about getting along in ID the world this waste begins at the very foundations of our society and business and runs all the way up the american farmer Is a man who has burned off great tracts of valuable timber worth live five times the land on which it grew to raise grain to burn for firewood that land to today day Is but half tilled tak taking the fields of germany and other european countries into the comp comparison arison Lr ison until very recently all the refuse about mills and manufactories manu factories was destroyed now many of them turn their slabs into furniture and their sawdust into fuel ag agton lin as to food anybody who has traveled much and knows what tort sort of food one gets in the south and west anywhere outside of the bil big eastern cities will appreciate it when I 1 say that at least one half the food Is wasted waa ted this Ls Is partly through bad cookery and partly through mere wasteful management all food not assimilated simi Is wasted worse than wasted for it wears tho the system out to no purpose the common hotel and family cookery makes assimilation practically impossible so much for what Is eaten that which Is actually thrown away would food feed millions if it could be diverted into the proper channels it would make human buffering fering from want of food impossible in this country more the waste would feed the indigent hungry of the whole worldly there Is something actually criminal in a all this but I 1 presume it cant be helped until the american nature shall havo have undergone a change new york her ild idd |
