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The true cost of what the global food industry throws away.

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"Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat." -- Tom Standage - BBC Focus Magazine
"Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue." -- Mark Knoblauch - Booklist
"In Waste, Tristram Stuart...ingeniously unites many food scandals that often do not get the attention they deserve...Usefully, Stuart offers examples of what we could be doing better, from processing technologies to offal sausages." -- New Scientist
"An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin." -- Scotland on Sunday
"Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- John Preston - Seven
"Book of the Week: Stuart’s book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- Sunday Telegraph [London]
"This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever." -- Paul Kingsnorth - The Independent [UK]
"This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisive—the sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky." -- Simon Fairlie - The Land
"Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep." -- The Sun [London]
"Jaw-dropping ...compelling—a must-read... Stuart has an unanswerable case." -- Bee Wilson - The Sunday Times [London]

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      Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
      Publication Date: 1/20/2025 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780393349566, 978-0393349566
      ISBN10: 039334956X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The true cost of what the global food industry throws away.

      Trade Review
      "Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat." -- Tom Standage - BBC Focus Magazine
      "Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue." -- Mark Knoblauch - Booklist
      "In Waste, Tristram Stuart...ingeniously unites many food scandals that often do not get the attention they deserve...Usefully, Stuart offers examples of what we could be doing better, from processing technologies to offal sausages." -- New Scientist
      "An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin." -- Scotland on Sunday
      "Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- John Preston - Seven
      "Book of the Week: Stuart’s book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge." -- Sunday Telegraph [London]
      "This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever." -- Paul Kingsnorth - The Independent [UK]
      "This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisive—the sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky." -- Simon Fairlie - The Land
      "Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep." -- The Sun [London]
      "Jaw-dropping ...compelling—a must-read... Stuart has an unanswerable case." -- Bee Wilson - The Sunday Times [London]

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