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Waste - Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Paperback)
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Combining frontline investigation with startling new data, Tristram
Stuart's Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global
food crisis - and what we can do to fix it. With shortages,
volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has
a food problem - or thinks it does. Yet farmers, manufacturers,
supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up
to half of their food - enough 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. But
there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become
one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems.
Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and
introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food
industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of
profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the
most of what we have. 'Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene
levels of produce ending up in landfill ... read it and weep' The
Sun 'Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most
manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge'
Sunday Telegraph 'An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study'
Scotland on Sunday Tristram Stuart has been a freelance writer for
Indian newspapers, a project manager in Kosovo and a prominent
critic of the food industry. He has made regular contributions to
television documentaries, radio and newspaper debates on the social
and environmental aspects of food. His first book, The Bloodless
Revolution, was published in 2006.
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