Food Waste

Here’s a sobering statistic for you: over one-third, or 1.3 billion tons, of the world’s food supply is wasted every year according to the U.N. The mind-boggling figure comes as a result of a study commissioned by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization in the wake of skyrocketing food prices, diminished food production, increasing world hunger, and a growing yet unstable food supply system. [CNN]