Clinton Urges Less Food Waste in U.S.

The Clinton administration has some advice for people who find themselves with too much holiday food to eat themselves: Donate it; don’t dump it. In a visit to a soup kitchen and in guidelines the Agriculture Department plans to issue today, President Clinton is urging Americans to stop the “appalling” habit of throwing out 96 billion pounds of food each year--more than enough to feed all of the nation’s hungry people. “In every community, civic-minded people ought to take an inventory of how much food is being wasted, where it is, how to gather it up, how to give it to the churches, the synagogues, the mosques,” Clinton said during a visit to the D.C. Central Kitchen.