117 FOOD FACTS No. 42 IF you saw your neighbour throw away a loaf of bread, you'd be very indignant. " That woman is as bad as a traitor," you'd say, " Doesn't she realise that wasting food is wasting shipping space—and that we need our shipping space for munitions ? " And you'd report the matter to the Ministry of Food. But though waste on a big scale is criminal, waste on a small scale is serious, too. A lot of people throwing away bread that could be baked for rusks, a lot of people throwing away vegetable water that could be made into soup, a lot of people throwing away " left-overs " that could be served again, make a great deal of waste indeed.