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Food waste is one of the biggest contributors to climate change
- tuatoru 5y agoNo, it isn't. Virtue signalling victim-blaming. Making cement, smelting iron and making steel, transport. Extracting, refining, and distributing fossil fuels. All of these things are much bigger in terms of emissions. Yes, food production is a middle-league emitter (about 4% of fossil fuel energy consumption), but waste is a relatively small part of that.
- chaimanmeow 5y ago> "About a third of all the world’s food goes to waste, and producing, transporting and letting that food rot releases 8-10% of global greenhouse gases. If food waste were a country, it would have the third-biggest carbon footprint after the US and China, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation."