Waste Uncovering the Global Food Scandal [Paperback]

With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problemor thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their foodenough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market.Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat.Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue.InAn extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin.Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.Book of the Week: Stuarts book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever.This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisivethe sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky.Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep.Jaw-dropping ...compellinga must-read... l³&