Food Rationing: The Only Solution To Food Wastage?

As Gordon Brown urges Brits to reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfill, would a return to World-War style rationing and cooking not only reduce wastage, but also help to shrink the UK0s bulging waistlines and the environment in the process?
Food rationing came into effect back in February 1918 during World War One. However, there are many lessons that can be learnt in order to benefit today0s wasteful society.

Although food was scarce back then and the black market profited from other people0s misfortunes, the fitness of the UK population was at an all time high, with food wastage and obesity barely an issue as every bit of food was put to good use and each meal was planned out to be as nutritional as possible.
Today, with families in the UK wasting on average 0416 worth of perfectly good food per year, perhaps it is time to reduce the amount of food imported from distant continents and start to be become more self sufficient in order to help future generations in the UK? However due to cultural changes and a lack of free time, more people are resorting to the quick fix ready meals that have made modern society […]

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