Today is Intl Day of Awareness of Food Loss & Waste #FLWDay🍎🌽🥦 An estimated 17% of🌍food production is wasted & accounts for 38% of energy usage in the🌍#FoodSystems Reducing food loss & waste provides a powerful means to improve🌍’s health @FAO

Sep 29, 2021 · 8:36 AM UTC

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Replying to @IPBES @FAO
On #FLWDay it is essential to consider that wasting #animal-based foods has a higher climate impact than wasting #PlantBased food. Wasting #meat, dairy, and eggs also entails wasting all land, feed, water, labor & antibiotics used by animal agriculture.👇
Replying to @Sentient_Media
30-40% of available food in the US gets wasted, according to @USDA. Since more resources are needed to raise animals than grow plants, wasting meat and dairy has significantly higher environmental impacts than wasting plants, @karenaspwriter reports. 2/7 sentientmedia.org/why-the-am…
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