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Waste: uncovering the global food scandal

By Stuart , Tristram

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2009
ISBN
9780393077353, 8776141195, 9780141924618, 0141924616, 0393077357
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1006 kB (1029774 bytes)
Pages
(xxii, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Industries--Food Industry;Fo

Description

pt. I. Perishing possessions -- 1. Liber-ate -- 2. Supermarkets -- 3. Manufacturers -- 4. Selling the sell-by mythology -- 5. Watching your wasteline -- 6. Losing ground : some environmental impacts of waste -- pt. II. Squandered harvests -- 7. Farming : potatoes have eyes -- 8. Fish : the scale of waste -- 9. Meat : offal isn't awful -- 10. Moth and mould : waste in a land of hunger -- 11. The evolutionary origins of surplus -- 12. Adding it all up and asking ... 'what if?' -- pt. III. Where there's muck there's brass -- 13. Reduce : food is for eating -- 14. Redistribute : the gleaners -- 15. Recycle : compost and gas -- 16. Omnivorous brethren : pigs and us -- 17. Islands of hope : Japan, Taiwan and South Korea -- 18. Action plan : a path to utrophia.

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