If anything, that's a low estimate, as it doesn't include food thrown away by supermarkets. It's a surprising number but if you estimate that each of the 60m people in the UK eats half a chicken a week, that gives 4m chickens/day eaten. The "1/3 of food wasted" is a number I've heard before.
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Date: 2008-05-08 01:31 pm (UTC)