Table 18 on page 27 of the report (http://wrap.s3.amazonaws.com/the-food-we-waste.pdf) contains the following figures for avoidable chicken waste, in tonnes per annum:That’s 194 tonnes per day. The conversion to 500,000 chickens must therefore be based on an estimate of about 388g of usable meat on an average chicken. (Perhaps it was 400g and then the result was rounded to one significant figure.) This doesn’t seem absurd to me.
(I note that the figure for wasted chicken meat in terms of chickens per day does not come from WRAP’s report (which estimates the weight and cost of the waste) nor from their press release (http://wrap.s3.amazonaws.com/the-food-we-waste-executive-summary.pdf), which only mentions “chicken portions”.)
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Date: 2008-05-08 01:23 pm (UTC)It’s certainly the right order of magnitude.
Table 18 on page 27 of the report (http://wrap.s3.amazonaws.com/the-food-we-waste.pdf) contains the following figures for avoidable chicken waste, in tonnes per annum:That’s 194 tonnes per day. The conversion to 500,000 chickens must therefore be based on an estimate of about 388g of usable meat on an average chicken. (Perhaps it was 400g and then the result was rounded to one significant figure.) This doesn’t seem absurd to me.
(I note that the figure for wasted chicken meat in terms of chickens per day does not come from WRAP’s report (which estimates the weight and cost of the waste) nor from their press release (http://wrap.s3.amazonaws.com/the-food-we-waste-executive-summary.pdf), which only mentions “chicken portions”.)