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Wasted food is a huge climate problem

2013-09-16 20:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: If wasted food became its own pungent country, it would be the world`s third biggest contributor to climate change. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization had previously determined that roughly one-third of food is wasted around the world. Now it has 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. The results, published in a new report [PDF],...

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