Its not just consumer waste, its also wasted before it gets bought.
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As much as half of all the food produced in the world – equivalent to 2bn tonnes – ends up as waste every year, engineers warned in a report published on Thursday.
The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates, buy-one-get-one free and Western consumer demand for cosmetically perfect food, along with "poor engineering and agricultural practices", inadequate infrastructure and poor storage facilities.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...rld-food-waste
I was reading on a thread on tumblr a bunch of comments from people who worked at grocery stores who were forced to throw out good food for some reason or another, like if one egg breaks in a carton, you have to throw the whole carton out. Not EVERY grocery store does that, but its frigtening that any store does that.
I've heard before too that farmers might destroy produce to fix prices.
But such is the reality of sales. When I worked at the craft store, we'd have to throw out a shit ton of perfectly good stuff just because it was in the store too long.