• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Almost half of food waste is people buying food that they let go bad before they eat it.

    That’s substantially a price problem, in that people are more willing to let a cheap banana spoil than a prime rib or lobster. Food being cheap makes people more willing to let it expire.

    But fixing residential food waste by making food more expensive would make hunger worse.