http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/01/fining-for-food-waste-and-the-clean-plate-campaign/ Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Sun, 19 May 2013 00:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2013/01/fining-for-food-waste-and-the-clean-plate-campaign/#comment-60936 Weekend food waste roundup – 27 January 2013 | 222 million tons Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:11:42 +0000 http://chinadigitaltimes.net/?p=150578#comment-60936 [...] Fines for Food Waste and the “Clean Plate Campaign” | China Digital Times (CDT)  Yuan Longping, an agricultural scientist at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the “father of hybrid rice“, has publicly endorsed the implementation of fines for wasted food. “I suggest the government prohibit wasting food by treating it as a kind of crime and shameful behaviour,” he said. “Many banquets I have attended offered dozens of different dishes to the guests, who only briefly tasted each dish and then threw them away. The authorities should fine them.” [...]

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