Discarded, left to rot or never harvested because its the wrong shape of size, a total of 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year. Read on and share your thoughts on one of the biggest scandals of our time. A few facts on food waste. Throwing away, or failing to collect those 1.3 billion tons of comestibles from the fields in the first place, is tantamount to burning one trillion dollars. That’s ONE TRILLION dollars up in smoke, or at least up in climate-change inducing gas – for what? Almost half (45 percent) of fruit and vegetables produced globally is wasted. And a quarter of the food we fail to eat could feed the near 800 million people in the world who simply don’t have … read more

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