It would seem my latest book, I Quit Sugar: SIMPLICIOUS, is a little contentious. The fact I advocate doggie bags, double dunk my teabags, and cook up my friends’ fish bones into stock apparently leaves some a little uncomfortable.
In fact – and this astounded me when I heard – I got wind a few weeks back that two major news outlets were wanting to do a “tear down” of my sustainability message. Why? For sport? Clicks? Because food sustainability is such an obnoxiously wrong idea?
I like to be on the front foot. And I like to calm the Zeitgeist, rather than inflame.
To this end, I figured it could be good to get in with a guide to the issue for anyone planning a shredding of my message. I’m not too fussed if folk go after me. I’m old, hardened and have techniques for dealing with such trolls and snippities. But I’d really rather the importance of the food wastage issue not get sullied by incorrect information.
Feel free to onpass to snippities, doubters and shredders in your orbit. Or copy and paste to forums where light might need to be shed.
Food Waste: A Cheat Sheet of responses
“Seriously. You think food waste is an issue?”
It sure is. Globally, 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food is wasted per year. The organization FutureFood2050 estimates up to 50 per cent of food produced for human consumption in the world is never eaten.
“Aren’t there bigger eco battles to fight? Like car pollution?”
Nope.