Love Letter to Food
Alex's Issue Brief: http://www.foodpolicy.umn.edu/sites/foodpolicy.umn.edu/files/food-loss-waste.pdf Thanks to the Food Policy Research Center (FPRC) at the University of Minnesota for supporting...
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Dear Food, You probably already know this, but I need you. You bring my family together, you sweeten my celebrations, you make my deals, you satisfy my senses, and you keep me alive. You work so hard to make all of this possible, spending your life growing in the field, the factory farm, or the sea. I try to be good to you - I give you half of my land, two thirds of the freshwater I consume, a tenth of my energy, and one-sixth of my workforce. But I want to apologize. Because after all that, you deserve to be eaten. But instead, I throw away almost half of you - enough calories to feed 150 million people. From harvest to home, I waste half of all fruits, vegetables and seafood, and a third of all grains. I'm better to meat and dairy, wasting only...
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Dear Food, You probably already know this, but I need you. You bring my family together, you sweeten my celebrations, you make my deals, you satisfy my senses, and you keep me alive. You work so hard to make all of this possible, spending your life growing in the field, the factory farm, or the sea. I try to be good to you - I give you half of my land, two thirds of the freshwater I consume, a tenth of my energy, and one-sixth of my workforce. But I want to apologize. Because after all that, you deserve to be eaten. But instead, I throw away almost half of you - enough calories to feed 150 million people. From harvest to home, I waste half of all fruits, vegetables and seafood, and a third of all grains. I'm better to meat and dairy, wasting only...
