1.0 link 111483 <![CDATA[Good Grief, Gordon Brown!]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe/good-grief-gordon-brown_b_111483.html "Finish your supper, Francie, children are dying in China," I heard growing up. It didn't make sense to me then, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's retake this week makes even less.

He's now scolding Brits for not eating every last pea on their plates: Britons all need to be "doing more to cut our food waste," in order to "get food prices down," said Brown, as the G8 meets in Japan.

True, food waste is enormous and egregious. Nearly

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