[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', 'N')ot wasting food will not solve the problem of undernourished and starving people. Instead, it will actually increase their numbers.

[Ainan]

I worked in a department store once. We threw a lot away, food products, such as biscuits and fancy chocolates just because they were past sell by date.(None i nicked, and yes nicked, its still their property after they have thrown it out apprently, had gone bad) It's not just food, 1000s of candles, cookware, cusions, decorations and clothes of all sorts are just thrown out because they have not sold in the the last 9 season rotation period.

As if that was not enough, we had a number of 'tramps'(who living in the UK would have council houses) raiding our skip for all these goods so standard policy was changed to pour bleach over everything.

THEY ACTUALLY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO BUY BLEACH TO RUIN ALL THIS 'RUBBISH'.

We are doomed people.

[lorenzo]

101 in global sustainability. For Heineken.



More food = fewer people = less stress on the environment.

[Golgo13]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', '1')01 in global sustainability. For Heineken. See chart Lorenzo's post More food = fewer people = less stress on the environment.

[lorenzo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Golgo13', 'T')hat just makes the population problem worse.

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lorenzo', 'R')emember: more food = less people. A basic rule in the history of demography and economics:
The societies who have made the transition to low fertility rates now have enough wealth to become more rational, post-capitalist, efficient consumers. Japan and Europe are there.
The middle economies are the most dangerous, because they still have relatively high fertility rates, and very primitive capitalist consumer cultures, which wreck the planet. This is the U.S.
The low income economies, with their high fertility rates, need more food to lower their fertility rates. That's the first step.

[timmac]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lorenzo', 'T')he middle economies are the most dangerous, because they still have relatively high fertility rates, and very primitive capitalist consumer cultures, which wreck the planet. This is the U.S.

[Quinny]

Not necessarily
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Golgo13', 'T')hat just makes the population problem worse.

[lorenzo]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Quinny', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Golgo13', 'T')hat just makes the population problem worse.

[Quinny]

I think your equation should probably read: Less people = more food

[Heineken]

Maybe we can eat those little green squigglies in Lorenzo's avatar?

Then we can eat algae burgers as we tool around in our algae-powered cars.

What's the point of the argument, anyway? We're headed for a population of 9 billion---maybe 9 times what is "sustainable"---no matter what we do, short of nuclear self-annihilation.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', '"')Report: world throws away 50% of all food:" I think we can take some small satifaction(?) that this situation will not last forever. In fact, probably for not much longer. Keep an eye out for people queing up by the dumpsters.

[MrBean]

Economics 101 of trash economy: as sure sigh of economic slowdown and demand destruction in the consumerist society the tonnage of trash is getting smaller by huge factor (a guy in the trash industry mentioned IIRC percentage of 5 to 7 on year to year basis).

[3aidlillahi]

From the article:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ccording to Saving Water: From Field to Fork - Curbing Losses and Wastage in the Food Chain [*.pdf], tremendous amounts of food, and thus water, are discarded in the fields, during processing, in transport, in supermarkets, restaurants and in people's kitchens. Jan Lundqvist, who heads the scientific programme at SIWI, says the losses of all the food that farmers grow is an incredible 50 percent on a global scale.