Food Waste
Did you know that an estimated 30 - 50% of all the food produced on planet Earth is lost before reaching a human stomach? There are 2 ways to waste food. One is to eat more than needed. The other is not to make good use of what has been grown for food. I often eat more than I need. I'm now starting an effort to put that right. This means food is rather more on my mind than I'd like it to be just now and I certainly didn't intend to blog about it. Then I heard a statistic that shocked me. It was that 30 - 50% of the world's food produced for human consumption is never eaten. Put that alongside the fact that millions in the world can't get enough to eat and it looks like a crime against humanity. It is sinful and one way or another we are all caught up in the systems that perpetuate this. I don't usually read reports from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , but this morning I read Dr Tim Fox's report Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not . It...