VOA标准英语2013--Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(五月)
Putting Slurplus Food to Good Use
Every Monday, about 150 people line up in the parking lot of Christian 1 Life Center in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Joan Oswald, whose family has lived in an emergency homeless shelter since April, got here early.
“I had a lot of difficulties finding help with food. But since I met pastor 2 Slye, we don’t have to worry about food for my family. Every day there is food in my refrigerator," Oswald said.
Everyone in line receives bread and a full bag of produce weighing more than five kilos.
“Everything is free. That is why you have a line here. Everybody is hurting right now. Everybody has a need no matter what background you are from,” said.
pastor Ben Slye, who runs Christian Life Center.
He began the weekly food distribution to low-income residents in the Washington suburbs a year and a half ago. Every Monday, he rents a refrigerated truck to pick up fruits and vegetables from the two largest produce companies on the east coast, Taylor Farms and Coastal 3 Sunbelt Produce.
“It is approximately around 20,000 pounds [9,000 kilograms] per week. It could be sometimes we receive just 5,000. Today we will receive up to 40 to 50,000 pounds [18,000 to 23,000 kilograms] of fresh produce between the two organizations,” Slye said
The program began when Slye was told about the huge amount of produce sitting in warehouses 4 with nowhere to go.
“We sell millions of cases of fresh fruits and vegetables every year. Sometimes we have a little leftover 5. The quality standards of our customers are very high. So if the produce gets a couple of days old, maybe we can’t sell it to our customers, but we certainly don’t want it to go to waste,” said James McWhorter, a vice 6 president of Coastal Sunbelt Produce.
If the surplus produce doesn’t get picked up, McWhorter says, the company has to throw it out.
"Best case scenario 7, it will go to be composted. Worst case scenario, it will go to the landfill,” he said.
About 40 percent of all the food produced in the US is wasted, according to a recent report by the National Resources Defense 8 Council.
“It is a huge waste both monetarily 9 and environmentally. We estimated that about $165 billion every year was wasted on food that we never eat.” said Bob Keefe, the council'ss spokesman.
Back at the Christian Life Center, about 20 local non-profit groups take Slye's leftovers 10 to distribute.
“Vegetables are hard to get. You can get all the bread, but vegetables are really hard to get. Very thankful,” Lombardo said.
“A lot of families are living paycheck to paycheck, so they are not having to buy those expensive vegetables. It is a pretty good thing for them,” said Dana Duncan, of the Bladensburg police department
Slye says it is a blessing 11 to be able to reduce food waste and help feed people in need.
- They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
- His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
- He was the son of a poor pastor.他是一个穷牧师的儿子。
- We have no pastor at present:the church is run by five deacons.我们目前没有牧师：教会的事是由五位执事管理的。
- The ocean waves are slowly eating away the coastal rocks.大海的波浪慢慢地侵蚀着岸边的岩石。
- This country will fortify the coastal areas.该国将加强沿海地区的防御。
- The whisky was taken to bonded warehouses at Port Dundee. 威士忌酒已送到邓迪港的保稅仓库。
- Row upon row of newly built warehouses line the waterfront. 江岸新建的仓库鳞次栉比。
- These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
- Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。
- He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
- They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
- But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
- This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。