Waste : uncovering the global food scandal / Tristram Stuart.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xxii, 451 p., [16] p. of plates : chiefly col. ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780393068368 (hardcover)
- 0393068366
- 363.8 22
- TD899.F585 S78 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-431) and index.
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.
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.
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