Column: You waste more than $1,000 of food a year. Chew on that
Don't have enough to keep you up at night? Try this on for size. The world wastes more than 1 billion tons of food every year, according to a new report from the United Nations. That's 17% of total food available to consumers as of 2019 — enough food, if packed into millions of trucks, to circle the Earth seven times. Not only is this a shameful statistic in light of the more than 690 million ...
by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times
Mar 23, 2021
4 minutes
Don't have enough to keep you up at night? Try this on for size.
The world wastes more than 1 billion tons of food every year, according to a new report from the United Nations.
That's 17% of total food available to consumers as of 2019 — enough food, if packed into millions of trucks, to circle the Earth seven times.
Not only is this a shameful statistic in light of the more than 690 million people worldwide who go hungry each year, but it's yet another way that we're needlessly wrecking the planet.
By one estimate, if food waste was a country, it would represent the greatest volume of greenhouse gas emissions after
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