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- dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world
publication croisée depuis : https://feddit.org/post/3142575
publication croisée depuis : https://feddit.org/post/3142575
Fascinating to note, despite all the inefficiencies in capitalist food distribution and how horrifying entire dumpsters full of stale bread or “spoiled” vegetables are, roughly 60% of all food waste occurs at the household level, that is, because of the decisions of individual consumers on how they handle their own food at home.
The next time someone tries to argue “individual consumption doesn’t matter” I’ll have to cite this chart.
Not that I am disagreeing individual waste is a big part of it, I am not convinced this chart adequately demonstrates that. Is the per capita from the chart after they remove non-individual waste from the total? If not then the per capita includes things like commercial or industrial waste and it’s not really reflecting an individual waste perspective.
The chart measures household food waste. So yes. That is explicitly what it did.
“individual consumption doesn’t matter” is green “your vote doesn’t matter”
I’d argue individual consumption is often more impactful than your vote. You can’t gerrymander a dollar.