One third of world's food is wasted, says UN study

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: BBC

About one third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste, according to a study commissioned by the United Nations food agency.

That amounts to more than one billion tonnes of waste around the world every year.

The study recommends that developing countries should improve production and distribution, so as to stop losing so much food.

It also says industrialised countries must stop throwing so much away.

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[notesdev]

1. Higher prices will take care of that

Of course, millions will starve too, but hey, that's how human beings work.

[elias49]

2. And 2/3 of THAT is at Cheesecake Factories

[jmowreader]

3. Cheesecake factories?

I was thinking more that vermin control or the lack thereof, bad storage, perishables expiring uneaten and fuel production were the top causes.

[cliffordu]

4. THAT'S WHY YOUR MOM ALWAYS SAID TO CLEAN YOUR PLATE!!!!

[Bonobo]

5. I never understood how "cleaning your plate" was supposed to help feed hungry people.

Shouldn't there just be less food served on the plate?

That will help with national obesity too.

[The Blue Flower]

6. Highly recommend the book "Waste"

It is absolutely mindboggling how much is wasted globally.

[jberryhill]

7. Finish your plate, there are starving phraxites on Uranus /nt

[SemperEadem]

8. industrialized countries should not allow their corporations

to put such a hold on the transportation of consumable food from developing nations so that such food rots on the ground because it can't be shipped anywhere.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. Spoilage and waste has always bothered me

Given the nature of the products, some is to be expected, but more needs to be done to minimize it

[AndyTiedye]

10. Developing Nations Often Lack Refrigeration

and developed nations often have very long distribution chains.