If I buy a tomato, and throw it in my garden, eating none of it, most people would say I wasted the tomato. There are far cheaper methods of fertilizing my gar

If I buy a tomato, and throw it in my garden, eating none of it, most people would say I wasted the tomato. There are far cheaper methods of fertilizing my garden than tossing food into it, which makes it "wasteful". At a certain point you have to pick a definition of what counts as food waste, and stick with it. Fiddling with the definition isn't going to make the world a better place.