Comments on: Food waste not on the COP 15 menu http://www.gejiweb.org/cop15/?p=756 Journalism students report from the UN climate change conference Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Selina Juul http://www.gejiweb.org/cop15/?p=756&cpage=1#comment-15 Selina Juul Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:33:26 +0000 http://www.gejiweb.org/cop15/?p=756#comment-15 A correction to the article: It is written in the article “Ms Juul also claims that 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are emitted producing food that no one eats, a figure that is sourced from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council but isn’t being discussed at COP15.” - that is sourced NOT from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council, but from the book by Tristram Stuart “WASTE – Uncovering The Global Food Scandal”. The numbers from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council are as following: - Every year the average Dane throws away 63 kilograms of good edible food away. - 680.000 tonnes of good edible food is being thrown away in Denmark every year. Best regadrs, Selina Juul Founder, Stop Wasting Food movement http://www.stopspildafmad.dk/inenglish.html info@stopspildafmad.dk A correction to the article:

It is written in the article “Ms Juul also claims that 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are emitted producing food that no one eats, a figure that is sourced from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council but isn’t being discussed at COP15.”

- that is sourced NOT from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council, but from the book by Tristram Stuart
“WASTE – Uncovering The Global Food Scandal”.

The numbers from the Danish Agricultural and Food Council are as following:

- Every year the average Dane throws away 63 kilograms of good edible food away.
- 680.000 tonnes of good edible food is being thrown away in Denmark every year.

Best regadrs,
Selina Juul

Founder,
Stop Wasting Food movement

http://www.stopspildafmad.dk/inenglish.html
info@stopspildafmad.dk

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