Waste Not, Want Not: A Future Without Food Waste

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🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Every year, even as millions struggle with food insecurity, about a third of all the food produced for humans in the world is thrown away, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. That not only means wasting water and energy resources. The food, rotting in landfills, also emits methane gas linked to climate change. Attorney Emily Broad Leib, the director and founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, has dedicated her career to researching ways to end food waste. In this episode, she explains why food waste is such an issue around the world, how laws and regulations inadvertently lead to more food being wasted, and the simple changes to food labeling she says will make for a less wasteful future. Further Reading: The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Recent WSJ Food Coverage: Sustainable Chocolate Made Without Cacao | Mary Holland How to Read a Food Label: A Healthy Skeptic’s Guide to the Buzzwords | Elizabeth G. Dunn Emily Broad Leib’s recommended reading: Waste Free Kitchen Handbook: A Guide to Eating Well and Saving Money By Wasting Less Food | Dana Gunders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast has brought to you by Fidelity Investments.
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0:14.9	Fidelity is an equal opportunity employer.
0:23.4	You know, if you walk into a grocery store at 11 o'clock at night,
0:25.9	there's like a mountain of apples, a mountain of tomatoes.
0:28.9	I really don't think that that's the future.
0:30.5	I think it's more like, there's enough.
0:33.1	You may not be able to get every single thing that you want.
0:37.7	That's Emily Broadleab.
0:39.5	She's the founder of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic.
0:43.7	And she's considered one of the world's leading experts on food waste.
0:47.7	The consumer expectation of having everything available on demand at all times
0:53.5	is often what's leading to a lot of that waste on the back end.
0:59.2	From the Wall Street Journal, this is the future of everything.
1:02.4	I'm Caitlin Nicholas.
1:05.7	Today, Emily Broadleab gives us a roadmap to a less wasteful future,
1:10.5	sharing why she spent so much of her life investigating food waste
1:14.3	and how she thinks we should change course to get there.
1:17.5	Lots of different fields have a role to play in this,
1:19.7	but I think law in particular is a really interesting one
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