Tristram Stuart Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• Liver, lungs, heads, tails, kidneys, testicles, all of these things which are traditional, delicious and nutritious parts of our gastronomy go to waste.
• 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…
• Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.
• 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 Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple…
• 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.…
• 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,…
• 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…
• Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
• Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented -…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while…
• 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…
• As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.
• 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,…
• 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…

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