29
May
What a Waste
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Not only is eating animal products a massive waste of food (and lives), but the news that England and Wales are throwing away a ’staggering’ amount of food is disconcerting, to say the least. According to the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), 3.6million tonnes of food each year are sent to the rubbish tip, which equals a whole lotta food and mega bucks. £10.2billion to be precise.
What gets me, is that 18 percent of this ‘waste’ is meat and fish, with 5,500 whole chickens disposed of every day. Are you kidding?! That’s 5,500 lives destroyed for no reason (not that there was a reason in the first place of course). Cows enslaved in a life of dairy production also fare poorly, with 1.3million unopened pots of yogurt abandoned every day.
But we can all do better on this front. Yes even vegans, as lovely and virtuous as we are. If we’re honest, I’m sure we’d see just how much we needlessly waste. Now I’m not about to suggest you start digging mouldy potatoes and limp lettuce leaves out of the bin, but I guess we could have a think on this one…
Just pleeeeease, pleeeease also try to buy products that have minimal packaging - so what if a tomato looks nicer in a plastic wrapped, pre-packed, packaging overload, it’s a tomato, it’ll still taste like a tomato
Anyone noticed that poorer areas are subject to less waste control? why is it that the largest brand names are found as rubbish in the less affluent areas?