I am still waiting for my chosen book to arrive so I can't give any first-hand information yet, but it caught my eye as it deals with the issue of food injustice - people starving in some places of the earth and lots of food actually being thrown away by consumers or even before they reach the consumers by supermarkets.
I stumbled across several articles on a movement of people who want to draw attention to this issue (all in German though, so won't post any links) and thus refuse participating in the game. What they do is that they "steal" food from containers at supermarkets, which is very often still perfectly alright, but maybe the packaging was a bit scratched or dented etc. So they refuse to participate in the game and thereby try to show their criticism.
I am expecting the book to look at similar issues and hoping to learn more about the international connections between goods consumed in one place of the earth having huge implications on people's lives at places very far away...
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Great choice, Antje, which raises a really interesting question - if we actually have enough food, globally, for everyone, then the problem is one of fairness in distributing it, rather than a shortage of food. Can we justify a food system that systematically skews the distribution on the basis of ability to pay, resulting in hunger for millions?
AntwortenLöschenCommenting in English I'm afraid....! Read a few reviews of this book when it came out and an interview with the author. Sounded fascinating and raised some really important issues around the amount of waste in the distribution chain - frightening statistics - such as how many items of fruit are rejected so that Tesco/M&S/Sainsbury can have a perfectly shaped orang/apple etc. I have it on the to read pile at home so look forward to hearing
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