Cluck

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Half a million chickens every day? Can that really be right?

(...and the report itself, located by GDR.)

Comments

[pjc50.livejournal.com]

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.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

it doesn't include food thrown away by supermarkets

Indeed, nor cafes, restaurants, canteens, caterers, sandwich shops, farms, markets, ...