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Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless
Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, "draw[ing]
the different strands of the subject together in a way that has
never been done before" (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the
Natural World).
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.
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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