Anywhere from 30 to 50% of world food production lost to waste, says engineers’ group

Saturday, January 19th 2013 - 00:29 UTC

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The report “Global Food: Waste Not Want Not” by the UK’s Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) has found that 30-50%, or 1.2-2 billion tons, of produced food is wasted by poor storage, bad distribution and exacting quality standards in the developed world. Read full article

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GFace
Oh god, does this mean that we are going to start seeing full balls out gustation menus featuring nothing but offal as the new thing to be seen doing?!?!
Jan 19th, 2013 - 02:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
“With demand for food set to increase in the years ahead, we must
change our wasteful behaviour in rich countries,
boost investment in small scale farming in poor countries, and
slash the greenhouse gas emissions that are increasing the costs of feeding a warming world”.

It could be argued that spoilage between the field and the table is more important than anything proposed in this article.

Hungry people don't waste food.
Jan 19th, 2013 - 06:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GFace
@2“It could be argued that spoilage between the field and the table is more important than anything proposed in this article.”

...and ironically the hipness of the locavore movement has turned local produce into a boutique item, making it cheaper in some areas to purchase food transported over distances where spoilage becomes a greater risk.
Jan 20th, 2013 - 06:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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