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Waste, uncovering the global food scandal, Tristram Stuart

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Waste, uncovering the global food scandal, Tristram Stuart

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-431) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Waste

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

317920076

Responsibility statement

Tristram Stuart

Sub title

uncovering the global food scandal

Summary

In "Waste," Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Liber-ate -- Supermarkets -- Manufacturers -- Selling the sell-by mythology -- Watching your wasteline -- Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste -- Farming : potatoes have eyes -- Fish : the scale of waste -- Meat : offal isn't awful -- Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger -- The evolutionary origins of surplus -- Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?" -- Reduce : food is for eating -- Redistribute : the gleaners -- Recycle : compost and gas -- Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us -- Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea -- Action plan : a path to utopia -- Afterword -- Appendix : Graphs, tables, maps and data

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