Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 months agoThe enormous scale of global food waste.cdn.statcdn.comimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11file-text
arrow-up11imageThe enormous scale of global food waste.cdn.statcdn.comBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretburkhol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoNPR/USDA estimate that adults eat about 2000 pounds of food per year, so 94kg/2000 pounds = 10%. 73 kg/2000 pounds = 8%. Not bad, honestly, considering, for example, a banana peel is 12% of the banana.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoSo if they’ve shown percentage the numbers wouldn’t really fit the agenda. Biased article is biased
NPR/USDA estimate that adults eat about 2000 pounds of food per year, so 94kg/2000 pounds = 10%. 73 kg/2000 pounds = 8%. Not bad, honestly, considering, for example, a banana peel is 12% of the banana.
So if they’ve shown percentage the numbers wouldn’t really fit the agenda. Biased article is biased