by GSR Staff
"About 35 million tons of food ends up in landfills every year, accounting for 21 percent of the waste in landfills. According to a recent report by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, each year about one-third of the food produced for human consumption worldwide is wasted. Reducing the amount of food grown and wasted could decrease the need to raise food production by 60 percent in order to meet the 2050 population’s demand. When this food rots in the landfills, it becomes a significant source of methane – a potent greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide. Shockingly, food waste is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. Wasting food does not just take food from the mouths of the poor, it has lasting impacts on the future of life on Earth."
- Rachel Myslivy, from "A new vision of life after death," published on Global Sisters Report on Nov. 11, 2014.