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Jan 09 , 2018Views : 25137

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT ... WAIT? Re-assessing how much food we throw out.

In the world of food writing there is, as with any genre, a guiding set of self-evident truths. Organic is healthier; local is better; processed is poison; genetically modified is unnatural; and so on. Over the last decade, it has been one of the more refreshing developments to watch these established truths weaken and, in some cases, fall apart as new research shows them to be problematic. The result, judging from the more balanced food and environmental writing now being done, looks to be an approach to thinking about food and agriculture that is more flexible, less burdened by ideological blinders, and increasingly attentive to the disruptive influence of new research.

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