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The world has a food problem-rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation-or it thinks it does
This book shows that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their fresh produce-enough to feed the starving in the world six times over. Additionally, while affluent nations throw away food through neglect, up to 40 percent of some crops in the developing world are wasted because farmers lack the basic infrastructure to process and store them before they rot.Waste is both a personal journey over the world's food waste mountain and an objective investigation of this environmental and social problem. During his travels from Yorkshire to western China, Pakistan to Japan, Tristram Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring and innovative solutions. In the Uighur restaurateur who scolds him for not licking his rice bowl clean and the Korean pig farmer who fattens swine on people's leftovers, Stuart finds grounds for optimism. Unlike giving up air travel for the sake of the planet, avoiding food waste can be achieved without much sacrifice.Waste is essential reading for anyone who seeks to remedy the current global food crisis and how we live now.
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