CarlShulman’s mentioned food waste in developing nations, but there’s non-negligible food waste elsewhere too. On a bigger scale, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy used to be infamous in the 70s and 80s for generating surplus beef & butter “mountains”, although this is apparently a negligible problem now.
CarlShulman’s mentioned food waste in developing nations, but there’s non-negligible food waste elsewhere too. On a bigger scale, the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy used to be infamous in the 70s and 80s for generating surplus beef & butter “mountains”, although this is apparently a negligible problem now.