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Waste : uncovering the global food scandal

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Summary: In "Waste," Stuart points out that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets, and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 percent of their food supplies--enough to feed all the world's hungry three times over. Traveling from China to New York, from Pakistan to Japan, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy--but also inspiring innovations--to the global food crisis.

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Pt. I. Perishing possessions. 1. Liber-ate. 2. Supermarkets. 3. Manufacturers. 4. Selling the sell-by mythology. 5. Watching your wasteline. 6. Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste. Pt. II. Squandered harvests. 7. Farming : potatoes have eyes. 8. Fish : the scale of waste. 9. Meat : offal isn't awful. 10. Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger. 11. The evolutionary origins of surplus. 12. Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?'. Pt. III. Where there's muck there's brass. 13. Reduce : food is for eating. 14. Redistribute : the gleaners. 15. Recycle : compost and gas. 16. Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us. 17. Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. 18. Action plan : a path to utrophia