With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people
hungry, the world has a food problem--or thinks it does. 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. Waste traces the problem around
the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain.
Stuart's journey takes him from the streets of New York to China,
Pakistan and Japan and back to his home in England. Introducing us
to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart
encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring
innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. The
journey is a personal one, as Stuart is a dedicated freegan, who
has chosen to live off of discarded or self-produced food in order
to highlight the global food waste scandal. Combining front-line
investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we
live now has created a global food crisis--and what we can do to
fix it.
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