{"id":6447,"date":"2015-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auditeco.ro\/did-you-know-that-one-third-or-more-of-the-food-we-produce-each-year-is-never-eaten\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T10:56:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T08:56:32","slug":"did-you-know-that-one-third-or-more-of-the-food-we-produce-each-year-is-never-eaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auditeco.ro\/en\/did-you-know-that-one-third-or-more-of-the-food-we-produce-each-year-is-never-eaten\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that one-third or more of the food we produce each year is never eaten?"},"content":{"rendered":"
More than 1 billion metric tons of food is lost or wasted, never making it from the farm to our fork.<\/p>\n
Often in developing countries it decays in fields before harvest or spoils while being transported. Some is lost in retail markets before consumers can buy it. Meanwhile, in developed countries people buy too much and then throw it away. They reject perfectly nutritious food that is cosmetically imperfect.<\/p>\n
Too often we are served oversized meals, large portions of which are discarded. Although reasons vary, we waste food everywhere, often in ways that are unintended yet seem foolish given our fundamental need for this precious resource.<\/p>\n
The following is an excerpt from the book Food Foolish<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n