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Waste : uncovering the global food scandal
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Waste : uncovering the global food scandal

Author: Tristram Stuart
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1. American ed
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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.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tristram Stuart
ISBN: 9780393068368 0393068366
OCLC Number: 488953310
Description: xxii, 451 s., [16] s. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Tristram Stuart.

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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.

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