the real cost of capitalism's waste

Nearly 1 billion people in the world are hungry.

Malnutrition contributes to the death of 500 million children under the age of five every year.

In Africa, a child dies every six seconds from hunger.

Between 250 million and 500 million children with vitamin A deficiency become blind and half of them die within 12 months of losing their sight.

Within the United States, food retailers, food services, and households waste approximately 40 million tons of food each year, which is about the same amount needed to feed the estimated 1 billion hungry people worldwide. Roughly 1.3 billion tons of food, a third of the total amount produced for human consumption, is lost or wasted each year.

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