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Seeing food wasted makes us mad – but should it?
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 413" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2018-09-food-mad.html" target="_blank"><strong>Seeing food wasted makes us mad – but should it? - Phys.org</strong></a></p><p></p><p>There is currently a grand consensus of academics, policymakers and food campaign groups that "something must be done" to reduce food wastage. Malnutrition is real, but so too is the obesity crisis. But when everyone agrees, you can afford to be a little sceptical. Because food is about much more than just calories and nutrients. Food is also part of a wider cycle of products and services that we consume – and they also play a part in this story.</p><p> </p><p>People point at reports from public bodies like the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-at143e.pdf" target="_blank">who claim</a> that the world loses or wastes nearly a third of the food produced for human consumption. Estimates like this include things like crops that are not harvested, perhaps because of a supply glut. Difficulties with storage and transport also mean that a large proportion of global food "waste" occurs in Africa, where post-harvest losses of food grains <a href="http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5088/PB_From_Filed_to_Fork_2008.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" target="_blank">are estimated</a> at 25% of the total harvested production while fruit and vegetable losses can reach 50%.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 413, member: 1"] [URL='https://phys.org/news/2018-09-food-mad.html'][B]Seeing food wasted makes us mad – but should it? - Phys.org[/B][/URL] There is currently a grand consensus of academics, policymakers and food campaign groups that "something must be done" to reduce food wastage. Malnutrition is real, but so too is the obesity crisis. But when everyone agrees, you can afford to be a little sceptical. Because food is about much more than just calories and nutrients. Food is also part of a wider cycle of products and services that we consume – and they also play a part in this story. People point at reports from public bodies like the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), [URL='http://www.fao.org/3/a-at143e.pdf']who claim[/URL] that the world loses or wastes nearly a third of the food produced for human consumption. Estimates like this include things like crops that are not harvested, perhaps because of a supply glut. Difficulties with storage and transport also mean that a large proportion of global food "waste" occurs in Africa, where post-harvest losses of food grains [URL='http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/5088/PB_From_Filed_to_Fork_2008.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y']are estimated[/URL] at 25% of the total harvested production while fruit and vegetable losses can reach 50%. [/QUOTE]
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