Pope Francis: Wasting food is like stealing from the poor

[Julius Skrrvin]

Pope Francis says wasting food is like stealing from the poor - Telegraph

The Pope dedicated his Wednesday audience, which attracted thousands of pilgrims from around the world, to the UN’s World Environment Day.

The audience added a personal element for the Argentinian-born pontiff as 30 Italian relatives came to the Vatican from northern Italy to greet him. The Pope was born in Buenos Aires to Italian migrants.

“According to an Argentinian source who studied our family tree, my great grandfather was the brother of Pope Francis’s great-grandfather,” said Luigi Bergoglio from Santena in the region of Piedmont.

The Pope urged people to care for the environment and reduce waste.

“Are we truly cultivating and caring for creation? Or are we exploiting and neglecting it?

“Cultivating and caring for creation is God’s indication given to each one of us not only at the beginning of history. It means nurturing the world with responsibility and transforming it into a garden, a habitable place for everyone.”

Coldiretti, Italy’s largest agricultural organisation, welcomed the Pope’s speech and his recognition of farmers’ contribution to agriculture and cultivation.

“The globalisation of markets has reduced responsibility, honesty and transparency and provoked the international crisis,” said Sergio Marini, the president of Coldiretti. “I am grateful to the pope for recognising our work.”

Around 1.3 billion tonnes of food, or one third of what is produced for human consumption, gets lost or wasted every year, according to the United Nations’ food agency.

In his speech, Pope Francis denounced the fact that a 10-point drop in stock markets was widely considered “a tragedy” while homeless people dying on our streets was no longer news.

“Human ecology and environmental ecology walk hand in hand”, he said.

 

[Bud Bundy]

Damn this pope is saying some good shyt.

 

[Serious]

Sounds like I can f*ck with this pope(pause).

I don't believe in wasting food either, especially when think back to how much I've spent on certain items in the past, just to see them go to waste.

But now I usually eat everything I buy within a timely manner, then I throw certain biodegradable items on my lawn / backyard..

I also volunteer at a food pantry from time to time and the amount of food which gets thrown away is amazing...

 

[el_oh_el]

I agree with him. I feel terrible when I see the plates people throw away at a buffet

 

[GetInTheTruck]

One of the worst beatings I got from my moms when I was young was because I tried to be slick and threw out a quarter of what was left on my plate.

Moms: GOD WILL PUNISH YOU

Me:

Moms: I'M going to punish you

Me:

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

One of the worst beatings I got from my moms when I was young was because I tried to be slick and threw out a quarter of what was left on my plate.

Moms: GOD WILL PUNISH YOU

Me:

Moms: I'M going to punish you

Me:

throwing food away in a brown household

we've all learned that lesson the hard way

 

[GetInTheTruck]

throwing food away in a brown household

we've all learned that lesson the hard way

that and books on the floor/touching books with your feet would get that ass beat

 

[Type Username Here]

One of the worst beatings I got from my moms when I was young was because I tried to be slick and threw out a quarter of what was left on my plate.

Moms: GOD WILL PUNISH YOU

Me:

Moms: I'M going to punish you

Me:

Growing up in Brazil, we were lower middle class and were fortunate to be that due to the neighborhood we lived in.

My grandparents would always make me put the extra food we had into plastic bags and give it to the poor children who came begging for scraps. That was more powerful than a beating could have ever done.

When we have leftovers at my home, my wife and I always give it to our neighbors.

Even then I realize I can do better with waste. I still end up fukking up sometimes.

As for the Pope, dude has been dropping gems. But talk is just talk. He sits on a massive amount of money and gold.

 

[Type Username Here]

Grandma would beat the male childrens' asses though if you refused to eat the black beans or the beef.

She would always say that men had to eat those things to grow up and be men. Ignorant as fukk but I still love her.

 

[zerozero]

This is the wrong way to look at it. Tons of food gets wasted all over the world and there's much more food created than needed. Not wasting food at your end point isn't going to make a big difference. The problem is distributing enough food to the right places

So distributing your leftovers and not throwing stuff away at buffets and all that is noble but isn't even going to begin to put a dent in the issue of getting this extra food to the people who need it

 

[healthydog]

whats his position on masturbation?

 

[Type Username Here]

This is the wrong way to look at it. Tons of food gets wasted all over the world and there's much more food created than needed. Not wasting food at your end point isn't going to make a big difference. The problem is distributing enough food to the right places

So distributing your leftovers and not throwing stuff away at buffets and all that is noble but isn't even going to begin to put a dent in the issue of getting this extra food to the people who need it

Fair point.

To be fair though, it seems the Pope was saying exactly that.

 

[zerozero]

Fair point.

To be fair though, it seems the Pope was saying exactly that.

the pope's comments are sort of walking all across the spectrum.. he's talking about ecology but he's also talking about leftovers.. i guess just to give examples of waste

 

[Type Username Here]

yeah I think the pope was talking more generally, was just responding some posts in here

I found your criticism of my post to be valid and logical.

 

[No1]

throwing food away in a brown household

we've all learned that lesson the hard way

Everybody with any type of third world relatives or family knows the deal. They always come up with the examples of somebody being hungry somewhere.