Roughly a third of the food produced worldwide never gets eaten. The problem is particularly egregious in developed countries, where food is seen as being more expendable than it is elsewhere. Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tonnes) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes), the U.N. notes on its website. ...as much as 40 percent of Americas food supply ends up in a dumpster. ...some 14 percent of U.S. households still struggled to put food on the table for a portion of last year... The level of food waste suggests that curbing hunger isnt a matter of producing more food so much as better preserving and distributing the food currently being produced. As the United Nations noted in its report on world hunger last week, there is actually enough food to feed all seven billion people living in the world today.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:16:56 +0000
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