Why do we waste so much food? | The Royal Society

[@fburton8]

It's flipping ridiculous the amount of food waste. I have friends who easily fill up their food recycling bin every week - not fruit peel or veg trimmings because that goes in their compost. I rarely have anything to put in it. The last time I used it was a couple of weeks ago for the stones and peel of some mangoes that someone had given me, and I can't remember the time before that.

[@roblloyd1879]

Rarely waste any food, that's what my freezer is for. I would disagree with not keeping bread in the fridge. I keep malted wholemeal in the fridge and as a single person a loaf will last over 3 weeks well wrapped and remains moist and tasty. Same goes for the very occasional small loaf of white bread I buy for frying. I prepare a weekly brunch curry which I have 3 , sometime 4 days a week and this contains a lot of stewed apple. I currently have just stewed and frozen enough apple from my own tree to last me the year.

[@AndrewMartinNZ]

Advocating for more expensive food doesn't help reduce poverty and starvation. Advocating socialism doesn't help the food system. Instead you need countries to make food locally, which requires capitalism. Why do countries who have starving populations have little food production? Address the reasons for that, instead of blaming the West for making cheap food.

[@JP-sm4cs]

How does growing food locally require capitalism exactly? Capitalism is the economic system that guided us to where we are now? Why is socialism even being brought up when this is about consumer habits?

[@AndrewMartinNZ]

Disliked for advocating socialism, which causes mass starvation.