主题：【新闻】中国将超过美国成最大消费国 -- Davi
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对熟悉的环境，俺们更加了解个中之弊；而对自己一知半解的环境，俺们就很容易以偏概全，或者上了表面现象的当啊。
The food not eaten - Food waste: out of sight, out of mind
美国四成的食物被浪费，相当于每年2900万吨，占垃圾填埋量的百分之十七。
More than 40 percent of all food produced in America is not eaten, according to research by former University of Arizona anthropologist Timothy Jones. That amounts to more than 29 million tons of food waste each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days. Nationwide, food scraps make up 17 percent of what we send to landfills.
美国人自己也不觉得自己浪费食物。为什么呢？有人的解释是因为食物直接扔进了垃圾箱，眼不见心不烦。
This waste often goes undetected. “I think that without a doubt, when people say that they don’t waste food, they believe it. There’s a huge disconnect,” says William Rathje, a Stanford archaeologist who ran the University of Arizona Garbage Project for years. “People don’t pay attention to their food waste because it goes straight into the garbage or disposal. It’s not like newspapers that stack up in the garage.”
在整体的浪费文化背景下，怎么会对食物特别珍惜呢？中国人对食物的浪费跟老美相比只是小巫见大巫。。。
We live in a culture of excess, and food is no exception. The average American wastes more than half a pound of food per day. I’m no mathematical whiz, but that would be a whole Quarter Pounder at lunch and dinner. When you count what’s put down the disposal, 25 percent of what enters our homes is not eaten, Rathje reports.
平均下来每年全美国浪费食物价值一千亿美刀，人平600刀
Financially, wasted food costs America more than $100 billion annually, says the University of Arizona’s Jones. (The USDA’s most recent estimate on the cost of food waste — $96 billion — is 10 years old.) Closer to home, the average four-person household wastes about $600 of food each year.
小朋友在校吃午饭，每年浪费食物价值二十亿美元
Despite — or perhaps because of — the quality of Sloppy Joes, kids waste about $2 billion of taxpayer dollars through the National School Lunch Program. And the majority of cafeteria managers surveyed by the General Accounting Office felt that packed lunches accounted for at least the same amount of waste as school-provided lunches.
起决定作用的还是食物太便宜了。。。TNND，俺很少浪费食物的说，原来这是因为俺太穷了。。。
If food is cheap, why is it bad to waste it?
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🙂没错，美国的浪费是习惯性浪费 21 爱菊轩 字648 2010-12-17 13:26:57
🙂送宝还是要注明一下的。 小黑爱小白 字153 2010-12-18 23:04:34
🙂门板人 天天上班 字80 2010-12-18 18:06:36
😜同学，日常观察是会骗人的啊。。实际是美国四成的食物被浪费
🙂呵呵，所以嘛，我们的目标不是挑战老大的地位 1 踏翅 字44 2010-12-19 01:46:13
😄老大的皮很多很厚，扒掉几层都没事 李根 字156 2010-12-20 08:18:11
🙂感谢：作者获得通宝一枚。 oldnew 字0 2010-12-16 10:28:53
🙂花数据 5 否定之否定 字357 2010-12-16 09:12:53