Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal - Softcover

Book of the Week: Stuart's book is passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.

An extremely thought-provoking, passionate study which could make even the biggest skeptic think twice before putting the leftovers in the bin.

Tristram Stuart lifts the lid on the obscene levels of produce ending up in landfill....Read it and weep.

This is one of those books that everybody should read....It may well change your view of the way we treat food forever.--Paul Kingsnorth

Deftly illuminates the global consequences of our choices about what to eat.--Tom Standage

Passionate, closely argued and guaranteed to make the most manic consumer peer guiltily into the recesses of their fridge.--John Preston

Every day all around the globe, appallingly enormous amounts of otherwise edible food go to waste even while humans are starving. Stuart aims to educate people about where such waste occurs, how much of it there is, and what possible steps can be undertaken to reduce it substantially if not eliminate it altogether.... Notes and a huge bibliography lead readers to additional resources on this pressing environmental issue.--Mark Knoblauch

This is a first class book, as copiously referenced as any academic report, yet both blunt and incisive--the sort of book one can expect only from someone who gets his hands mucky as well as inky.--Simon Fairlie

Jaw-dropping ...compelling--a must-read... Stuart has an unanswerable case.--Bee Wilson

But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Waste traces the problem around the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain. Stuart's journey takes him from the streets of New York to China, Pakistan and Japan and back to his home in England. Introducing us to foraging pigs, potato farmers and food industry CEOs, Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring innovations and ways of making the most of what we have. The journey is a personal one, as Stuart is a dedicated freegan, who has chosen to live off of discarded or self-produced food in order to highlight the global food waste scandal.

Combining front-line investigation with startling new data, Waste shows how the way we live now has created a global food crisis--and what we can do to fix it.