A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
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America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.
American food is not what I'm used to - everything is like three portions.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
American food is the food of immigrants. You go back a couple of hundred years, and we were all immigrants, unless we're going to talk about Native American cuisine.
Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
We as Americans have ripped off the world. We get to throw food away. It's insane.
I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
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