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We waste a third of what we produce. If you take into account what we burn in the process (fertilizer, fuel, water, manpower), you'll realize how bad are our co
by nkg 4y ago
We waste a third of what we produce. If you take into account what we burn in the process (fertilizer, fuel, water, manpower), you'll realize how bad are our consumption habits.
"In the United States 30 per cent of all food, worth US$48.3 billion (€32.5 billion), is thrown away each year."
"The food currently wasted in Europe could feed 200 million people (FAO, 2013)."
Source: https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-food-waste https://www.unep.org/thinkeatsave/get-informed/worldwide-foo...
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThere are 330 million people in the US so that means the waste is only worth 130 USD per person. Or to put it another way a years worth of food in the US costs only an average of 260 USD, less than a dollar a day. That seems unlikely to me. I'm pretty sure that even poor people in the US pay more than a dollar a day for their food. So where does all the money go?
- hedora 4y agoMiddlemen. Farmers are paid below market rates, and below cost of production in the US. Tax breaks and other subsidies let the farmers stay afloat, and organizations such as the Chicago Board of Trade set artificially low wholesale prices.
- pkaye 4y agoIts not clear if US is any worse of that other countries based on this UN study. The data is very noisy and many developing countries don't have high confidence estimates of waste. Lack of temperature controlled storage and reliable transportation infrastructure can be a big issue in developing countries for example. https://catalogue.unccd.int/1679_FoodWaste.pdf https://catalogue.unccd.int/1679_FoodWaste.pdf