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Per capita is the only relevant stat here and its all over the place.
1kg of steak waste is orders of magnitude more wasteful than 1kg of rice waste
Not considering the type of food really reduces this to moslty meaningless.
Wasting a pound of rice is not nearly as bad for the environment, economy and nutrients lost as losing a pound of meat.
Meh.
All food gets eaten by something eventually 🤔
Food waste actually did have environmental impact if you think about it. Food need place to grow, whether meat or plant, and if big percent of food goes to waste it mean a big amount of land cleared just to grow rubbish. Also, food thrown away are getting send to landfill, which mean the food decompose anaerobically thus create methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and landfill is a big source of methane.
