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Food Waste: Canada $3-5+ billion, UK $10+ billion per year?

Elimination of food waste could lift 1bn out of hunger, say campaigners (The Guardian) Food Waste: Canada $3-5+ billion, UK $10+ billion per year? Supermarkets throw away two million tons of food a year (UK) An Apple a Day Gets Thrown Away (UK) Hunger and food waste (in Sweden, Switzerland and elsewhere)

The balance between meat and plant consumption

The following article explains that if most of us would follow a healthy, but rational diet, then not only would obesity problems be a nightmare of the past, but it would also greatly reduce our ecologic footprint . U.S. could feed 800 million people with grain that livestock eat, Cornell ecologist advises animal scientists (with David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences)