If you claim to care about climate change, we need to have a word about food. Specifically, about the fantastically unsustainable way we consume food in the U.S. There’s a number of issues here, but the biggest one is our relationship to meat, and the efficiency of turning food — and, by extension, carbon — into calories.
In the U.S. in particular, food supply is woefully inefficient, and this shows up in a number of ways. For example, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, 30% of food produced for humans in the U.S. ends up not being consumed by humans. The USDA puts the same number at 30% to 40%. This is a shame for the food that’s wasted — unconscionable, in a country whe …
