Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal by Tristram Stuart, Penguin €11
Are we profligate with food? Tristram Stuart thinks so. In Britain and the US average food costs are approximately 10% of a household’s disposable income. In Pakistan it is 75%.
A result of this wastefulness, according to Stuart, is that the environmental impact of producing all this food that we don’t eat is significant – it takes 8.3 million hectares of agricultural land to produce just the meat and dairy products wasted in UK households and by consumers, retailers and food services in the US – This land amounts to seven times the amount of land deforested in Brazil in the past year.
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