Quotes by Tristram Stuart - Page 1

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
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Who Cares
Bend
Same
Cares
Carrot
Plate
Slight
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Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.
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Cutting
Saving
World
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Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
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Good Food
Holy
Holy Grail
Ancestors
Climbed
Grail
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Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.
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Eating
Feet
Waste
Avoid
Head
Helps
Picked
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We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.
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Inspiration
Motivation
People
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A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
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Country
Inspiration
Motivation
Restaurants
Shelves
Twice
American People
Feed
Food Country People
Shop
Required
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As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.
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Efficient
Grass
Resources
Harnessing
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Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.
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Delicious
Liver
Lungs
Tails
Traditional
Waste
Heads
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According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
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Animal
People
Pyramids
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According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Failing
Waste
According
Best Food People
Feed
Eaten
Ensuring
Farm
Pyramid
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In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.
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Calories
Feeding
Humans
Livestock
Luxury
Yield
Agricultural
Consume
Grains
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Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.
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Environmental
Evidence
Appear
Very Long Time
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Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding the organisations that facilitate it.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Corporations
Facilitate
Funding
Sensible
Economically
Governments
High Time
Organisations
Pressing
Redistribution
Socially
Woke
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Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.
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Avoidance
Solutions
Waste
Win Win
Disposal
Per
Landfill
Paying
Redistribution
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The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.
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Feeding
Inviting
Principles
Steps
Waste
Avoid
Businesses
Campaign
Illustrate
Pyramid
Reduce
Sign
Tool
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The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.
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Computers
Environmental
Dump
Hardware
Other Countries
Account
Authors
Currently
Manufacture
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When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?
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Accepted
Consumption
Conversation
Debate
Meat
Population
Food People Children
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It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere.
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Combination
Crime
Forests
Newspapers
Paper
Transport
Gauge
Litter
Noxious
Sum
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I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.
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Christmas
Opportunity
Imagination
Believe
Leftovers
Bin
Million
Throw
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A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.
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Beef
Cereal
Curry
Ecological
Footprint
Greener
Hunk
Scottish
Arguably
Wild
Concentrated
Feed
Intensive
Rabbit
Vegetable
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It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.
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Another Way
Average
Consumers
Rubbish
Waste
Tips
Billion
Costing
Quarter
Roughly
Sobering
Supermarket
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As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.
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Ink
Pages
Printed
Representing
Revolution
Toxic
Accumulate
Bloodless
Envisaged
Forest
Page
Stack
Slice
Thousands
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Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Bananas
Bread
Exotic
Items
Ripe
Shopping
Skip
People Find More
Open
Chocolates
Often
Fed
List
Possibly
Raisin
Supermarket
Therein
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Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.
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Obvious
Track
Alarming
Ensuring
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Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
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Absence
Animal
Britain
Deer
Dense
Heartless
Numbers
Browse
Wild
Fail
Harmful
Predators
Reached
Wild Animals
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It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.
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Environmental
Clinic
Population
Vegetarianism
Willing
Campaign
Everyone Else
Towards
Meltdown
Minority
Nearest
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In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Garbage
Recycled
Reverse
South Korea
Waste
Cans
Exact
Municipal
Scraps
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Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.
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Locked
Sensible
Waste
Round
Landfill
Sites
Surely
Wasting
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The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.
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Barren
Farming
Insects
Leaving
Species
Birds
Wild
Deprive
Everything Else
Exterminate
Perfecting
Plants
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Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.
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Environmental
Damage
Ecological
Holistic
Hunted
Meat
Perspective
Purchasing
Animals
Harmful
Indiscriminately
Involves
Market
Viewed
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Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.
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Benign
Farming
Modification
Monsanto
Possibility
Generating
Organic
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In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Government
Energy
Farmers
Friendly
Japan
Livestock
Recycling
South
South Korea
Taiwan
Waste
Behind
Cheap
Feed
Environmentally
Landfill
Parts
Provides
Sending
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Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants.
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Animal
Bird
Chicks
Creation
Crops
Ecosystems
Mice
Significant
First Place
Harvesting
Inhabitants
Mash
Slice
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We domesticated pigs to turn food waste back into food. And yet, in Europe, that practice has become illegal since 2001 as a result of the foot-and-mouth outbreak. It's unscientific. It's unnecessary. If you cook food for pigs, just as if you cook food for humans, it is rendered safe. It's also a massive saving of resources.
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Humans
Illegal
Massive
Pigs
Practice
Resources
Safe
Unnecessary
Waste
Cook
Domesticated
Outbreak
Rendered
Result
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The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'
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Friendly
Give Me
Noses
Pigs
Scandal
School Friends
Traditional
Waste
Food Me Way
Bought
Feed
Environmentally
Global
Scraps
Turned
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Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Environmental
Commit
Cost
Criticism
Day To Day
Decision Making
Ideological
Ivory
Literary Criticism
Printing
Publishing
Centuries
Determining
Dispute
Literary
Slowly
Texts
Tower
Trees
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Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Difficulty
Direct
Produce
Surplus
Charities
Coordinate
Network
No Choice
Rot
Secondary
Teams
Volunteers
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