Like most of us, I try to be mindful of food that goes to waste. The arugula（芝麻菜）was to make a nice green salad, rounding out a roast chicken dinner. But I ended up working late. Then friends called with a dinner invitation. I stuck the chicken in the freezer. But as days passed, the arugula went bad. Even worse, I had unthinkingly bought way too much; I could have made six salads with what I threw out.
In a world where nearly 800 million people a year go hungry, "food waste goes against the moral grain," as Elizabeth Royte writes in this month's cover story. It's jaw-dropping how much perfectly good food is thrown away—from “ugly"（but quite eatable）vegetables rejected by grocers to large amounts of uneaten dishes thrown into restaurant garbage cans.
Producing food that no one eats wastes the water, fuel, and other resources used to grow it.That makes food waste an environmental problem. In fact, Royte writes, "if food waste were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases in the world."
If that's hard to understand, let's keep it as simple as the arugula at the back of my refrigerator.Mike Curtin sees my arugula story all the time — but for him, it's more like 12 bones of donated strawberries nearing their last days.Curtin is CEO of DC Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C.,which recovers food and turns it into healthy meals. Last year it recovered more than 807,500 pounds of food by taking donations and collecting blemished（有瑕疵的）produce that otherwise would have rotted in fields. And the strawberries? Volunteers will wash, cut, and freeze or dry them for use in meals down the road.
Such methods seem obvious, yet so often we just don't think. "Everyone can play a part in reducing waste, whether by not purchasing more food than necessary in your weekly shopping or by asking restaurants to not include the side dish you won't eat," Curtin says.
What does Curtin suggest people do?
- A.Buy only what is needed.
- B.Reduce food consumption.
- C.Go shopping once a week.
- D.Eat in restaurants less often.
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1948 年 11 月，中共中央发出关于在新解放城市中召开各界人民代表会议的指示。1949 年 8 月至 12 月，毛泽东以中央或个人名义发出多份电报，督促各地尽快召开各界人民代表会议，并报告开会情况；批复和批转不少地区关于召开各界人民代表会议的报告，推广开会经验。毛泽东在指导各地召开各界人民代表会议的实践中，提出一系列带有方针、政策性的重要指导思想：各界人民代表会议是人民代表大会的前身，是人民群众参政议政的初期组织形式；召开各界人民代表会议是一件大事，这个会议是团结各界人民的重要工具；在党的领导下，充分发扬民主，切实开好各界人民代表会议。1949 年 7 月以后，由于党中央和毛泽东发出许多关于召开各界人民代表会议的指示，各地都迅速召开这一会议。
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