With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem – or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food– enough to feed all the world’s hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West’s greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market. But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems. Travelling from Yorkshire to China, from Pakistan to Japan, and introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers, freegans and food industry directors, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis– and what we can do to fix it.
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jaw-dropping ... compelling - a must-read ... Stuart has an unanswerable case --Sunday Times
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Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill ... read it and weep
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Ron Woods
Format:Paperback
This book points the finger in the right direction. There is plenty of food. Farmers have no problem to grow plenty but do have a problem to get a proper price because there is an oversupply.Food has never been cheaper in history than it is nowadays.
Due to oversupply and high outer quality standards, there is a lot of outgrade for second and third class and there is no appreciation for what we harvest, so we throw a lot away.
Just all this waste can feed us.To be aware what is really going on in food supply and where there is a solution, read this one.
Due to oversupply and high outer quality standards, there is a lot of outgrade for second and third class and there is no appreciation for what we harvest, so we throw a lot away.
Just all this waste can feed us.To be aware what is really going on in food supply and where there is a solution, read this one.
24 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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This is such a mind-blowing book that everyone should be forced to read it and it should be part of the schools' curriculum.
The numbers alone suggest we grow and/or import stuff just to bin it; one billion tomatoes, nearly two billion bananas and how about nearly half a billion unopened yoghurt tubs. These are just a few of the statistics which pretty much amounts to £400 or more per year per household.
But this is certainly not just a list; the author informs how we can try to alleviate the problem. My own household has an almost empty wheelie bin, we compost everything and rarely discard newspapers but not everyone can do this. Lack of space is one reason and yet this problem, too, can be overcome.
However, rules and regulations stacked against manufacturers is a major part of the problem, too. The pages of who throws what away and why leaves this reader with the dreadful statistic that North America and Europe throw away enough to feed the world's undernourished several times over. Staggering.
It's a must read book of nearly 500 pages but don't be put off by a school-teacher approach that we must all eat our bread crusts; mine go to help feed the birds.
The numbers alone suggest we grow and/or import stuff just to bin it; one billion tomatoes, nearly two billion bananas and how about nearly half a billion unopened yoghurt tubs. These are just a few of the statistics which pretty much amounts to £400 or more per year per household.
But this is certainly not just a list; the author informs how we can try to alleviate the problem. My own household has an almost empty wheelie bin, we compost everything and rarely discard newspapers but not everyone can do this. Lack of space is one reason and yet this problem, too, can be overcome.
However, rules and regulations stacked against manufacturers is a major part of the problem, too. The pages of who throws what away and why leaves this reader with the dreadful statistic that North America and Europe throw away enough to feed the world's undernourished several times over. Staggering.
It's a must read book of nearly 500 pages but don't be put off by a school-teacher approach that we must all eat our bread crusts; mine go to help feed the birds.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Bob Ronald
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Having been brought up in an environment in which waste was never acceptable (we were at war with Germany) I find it totally abhorrent that not only do supermarkets and shops consider it to be satisfactory to deal in excessive quantities in order to maximise profit but more so is the shocking waste created by consumers, when thousands in the world and especially children and babies and dying for thr want of the simplest of food.
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Please read this important book!
Being a researcher for my own books and talks on waste reduction, I've read many a book on this subject, but it is this book by Tristram Stuart that really made me pull my finger... Read more
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Most informative book i've read in years
You won't believe some of the (recent) facts that this book eloquently presents to the reader about food waste. Read more
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5 Star book - Oh yes!
Real answers are what this book contains. Everyday I am sickened by the food waste I see all around me and now this book has explained to me the impact that this waste has all over... Read more
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Everyone who eats
Every person who eats in order to live should read this book. The others, can skip it. It is a definite "must read".
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Amazon - why is the Kindle edition more expensive than a paperback? Who is ripping off whom? You do not blame the publisher for this - so is it you?
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Wow - what possibilities
Ttristram Stewart's excellently researched book "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal" is filled with stories about how blatantly we waste our abundant resources, and on that... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Feidhlim Harty
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Incredibly Informative
The research and references in this book make it worth reading alone. The bible of the food waste industry.
We still don't really know what the supermarkets are up to. Read more
We still don't really know what the supermarkets are up to. Read more
Published 19 months ago by N. Thorne
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Why is the kindle edition more expensive than the paperback?
I am a keen reader and willing to pay up for a good book. With the kindle becoming ever more ubiquitous, I fail to understand why the paperback comes in cheaper than the electronic... Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2011 by S Klamp
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Interesting, well researched and informative
I found this book very absorbing and read it from cover to cover in a couple of days.
Tristram Stuart's style of writing is easily read and yet at the same time remains... Read more
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Published on 8 Nov 2010 by Mr. Michael Lewis
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Reality shock
It's a must reed. What Tristram Stuart reveals about the reality of our way of treating food is shocking and appalling and a real eye opener!
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