This gallery explains why millions of Americans are obese…

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  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Anything that you eat, unless you are kidnapped or institutionalized, is your own responsibility.

    I think that the increased portion phenomenon of the past 20 - 30 years is driven primarily by the increased industrialization of our food supply that resulted in the delegation of a lot of our food portioning to outside of the household, and by 2 big elements in America's culture: 1) our relentless pursuit of getting more for our money and 2) our aversion to wasting food. We want to get more for our money so we buy bigger portions – we hate to waste food, so we eat all of it.


    We don't hate wasting food. 40% of all food produced is never eaten in the US and just gets thrown away. Surprising, considering 1 in 3 children do not get enough food every day. We have a problem that goes too deep to explain in a paragraph on a message board.

    40% ???

    i am skeptical of that assertion. as we all well know, 68.4% of all statistics on the internet are made up on the spot.

    Unfortunately not. 40% of all food is thrown away before it can even reach the consumers hands. Don't even get me started about how much clean, drinking water we waste every year. We use 2.5 BILLION gallons of clean water on golf courses alone PER DAY in the world. That is enough water to support 4 billion people who do not have enough water to survive.

    We are wasting our limited resources on this planet. It really is pathetic.

    It's impossible to actually "waste" water. Well, I guess you could ship loads of it to outer space. But other than that, water doesn't just disappear once you've applied it to grass. Now a case could be made for "wasting" potable water in various instances, but the cool part is that even the nastiest water can be made potable.


    Also, I Googled "4 million people not enough water" and found all sorts of contradictory links. Smells like propaganda.
  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    Also, the trouble is not with a lack of clean water, but a lack of clean water in the right places.
    I suspect it would be complete lunacy to try and the water used in US golf courses to the majority of the places that need it.

    The reason for a lack of clean water is a lack of wealth, independant of how well a golf course is kept fresh, or not.

    There may be MORE of an argument for that around tourist courses in the south of Spain, where their use of water may be driving up prices for locals.

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