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RECORD NUMBER: 198 OF 211Main Title | Waste : uncovering the global food scandal / | |||||||||||
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Author | Stuart, Tristram, | |||||||||||
Publisher | W.W. Norton & Co., | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2009 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 317920076 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780393068368; 0393068366; 9780393349566; 039334956X | |||||||||||
Subjects | Food industry and trade--Waste minimization ; Food industry and trade--Waste disposal ; Recycling (Waste, etc) | |||||||||||
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Edition | 1st American ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xxii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, map ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-431) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction -- Liber-ate -- Supermarkets -- Manufacturers -- Selling the sell-by mythology -- Watching your wasteline -- Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste -- Farming : potatoes have eyes -- Fish : the scale of waste -- Meat : offal isn't awful -- Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger -- The evolutionary origins of surplus -- Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?" -- Reduce : food is for eating -- Redistribute : the gleaners -- Recycle : compost and gas -- Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us -- Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea -- Action plan : a path to utopia -- Afterword -- Appendix : Graphs, tables, maps and data. 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. |