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Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Waste not, want not

I don't normally care much about food stories, but the scale of the problem demands attention.

"This kind of near-criminal waste of good fresh produce is, unfortunately, very much the norm. Approximately one-third of the food we produce in the UK is never eaten. Take a minute to think about that - millions of tonnes of good food, and all the resources that go into producing it, squandered. Bonkers, isn't it ?"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34647454
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2 comments:

  1. Oliver Hamilton28 October 2015 at 12:27

    We waste that much food and yet we're still obese. We either need to produce less (people will be forced to be less fussy about shape and colour then) or need efficient chillers so we can just ship it out to counties that are hungry.

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  2. Rhys Taylor28 October 2015 at 15:22

    Aleksander Suchanowski I could be wrong, but I don't think food in the UK is taxed at all except for confectionery and alcohol.

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