http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/26879/0 en http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/eat-local/2013/10/if-wasted-food-were-country-it-would-be-third-biggest-climate-crimi <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p>If wasted food became its own pungent country, it would be the world’s third biggest contributor to climate change.</p> <p>The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization had <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38344&amp;Cr=fao&amp;Cr1#.UkG_VmSieCI" rel="nofollow">previously determined</a> that roughly one-third of food is wasted around the world. Now it has&nbsp;used those figures to calculate the environmental impacts of farming food that is never eaten, along with the climate-changing effects of the methane that escapes from food as it rots.</p> <p>The results,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">published in a new report</a>, were as nauseating as a grub-infested apple:</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/eat-local/2013/10/if-wasted-food-were-country-it-would-be-third-biggest-climate-crimi" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:39:29 +0000 Eat Local 103920 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca