It was announced yesterday that, worldwide, we end up throwing away one half of the food we buy with, perhaps  unsurprisingly,  the USA and Europe proving to be the worst offenders.

According to many scientists, the Earth’s resources are stretched to breaking point and we are rapidly approaching the stage where there will be insufficient food to sustain the human race.

One of the biggest problems is clearly the rampant consumerism of the decadent West where supermarket aisles are jam-packed full of food at bargain prices (buy one get one free, for example) which prove irresistible to the average shopper. By itself there’s not a lot wrong with this but evidently, once we’ve hauled our purchases home, we realise that we didn’t actually need them after all and we end up putting half in the rubbish bin.

That is scandalous  and it makes our obesity crisis (see last Friday’s blog) even more shameful; and all this whilst a sizeable part of the world’s population starves to death. It’s morally wrong, of course it is, but will we do anything about it. Probably not, and that’s the sad part.