Food waste\u00a0is a huge global problem. About a third of the food produced globally for human consumption, approximately 1.3 billion tons each year, is wasted or lost, according to the\u00a0U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization\u00a0(FAO). Food losses in industrialized countries add up to roughly $680 billion, with $310 billion in losses in developing countries. Produce (fruits and vegetables plus roots and tubers) have the highest rates of waste.\u00a0Taiwan has a simple solution to reduce food waste: Feed it to livestock. The Guardian\u00a0reports\u00a0that Taiwan is \u201cone of a handful of countries that have institutionalized the practice\u201d of feeding food scraps to livestock. About two-third\u2019s of the country\u2019s food waste is fed to its 5.5 million pigs. Pigs are Taiwan\u2019s biggest source of meat.\u201cWe realized there was a lot of kitchen waste and that if we put it in incinerators it would hamper incineration because it\u2019s wet,\u201d Chiang Tsu-nong, deputy inspector general with the government\u2019s Bureau of Environmental Inspection, told the Guardian. \u201cAnd Taiwan\u2019s land is limited, so if you build a landfill or an incinerator people will protest.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2159398","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n