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Issue:
Four more years?
Fly Title:
Food waste
Rubric:
Too much food gets thrown away
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A neglected feast
A neglected feast
INTERNATIONAL shindigs are noted for fine dining. But delegates at the recent World Water Week Conference in Stockholm, which discussed the looming global food crisis, practised what they preached: lunches were meatless, and any leftover quorn or quinoa was sent to make bio-gas.
Would that others were so thrifty. Torgny Holmgren of the Stockholm International Water Institute, which organised the event, reckons up to half of the food the world produces goes uneaten. In India up to 40% rots on the way to market. Americans bin 40% of what they buy, wasting $165 billion.
But America does have the thrifty “doggy bag” in which restaurants pack surplus food, nominally for canines, but often for humans. Most countries shun them: perhaps for fear of seeming stingy, or because of worries about hygiene. Travel blogs even warn Americans not ...
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