On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:15:29 +0000, K wrote:

I remember seeing somewhere the statistic for food produced that ended
up being eaten. I took that together with the '1/3 wasted by the
consumer' statistic and did the sums, and it came out that half of all
food was wasted before it even got to the consumer.

There is an awful lot of waste in the western human food chain. But
You also need to be careful about what you mean by waste. Is the
"waste" all food orginally intended for human consumption but doesn't
actually make it to someones stomach. Or that, less the food that
ends up feeding livestock or being used in some otherway. "Below
standard" corn being made into ethanol for fuel etc...

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Cheers
Dave.