Name: Danny White's review of Why Waste Food? by Andrew F. Smith
Item: Why Waste Food?
Rating: 4.5
Author: Danny White

Andrew F. Smith

About one-third of all food grown for human consumption is lost or discarded every year, despite financial, environmental, and ethical reasons not to waste food. We grow enough food to adequately feed everyone on the planet, yet hundreds of millions of people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, or food insecurity. Together, this food waste accounts for about eight percent of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. So, if wasting food is such a patently bad idea, why do we discard so much? In Why Waste Food?, Andrew F. Smith investigates one of today’s most pressing topics, examining the causes of avoidable food waste across the supply chain and highlighting the ways in which everyone can do something to tackle this global concern.

Why Waste Food?

Danny White

A little book that does well to break down a big issue. Food waste is divided into two overarching categories: production and consumption waste, which are further divided into six subcategories (e.g. farmed waste, restaurant waste, consumer waste).

This book balances density with accessibility. Chapters necessarily touch on macroeconomics and chemistry but I never felt too out of depth. The constant mention of commercial and government applications was helpful. My only gripe is that some of these (restaurant, scheme, startup) examples are already out of date since the book’s publication only two years ago.

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