3 out of 4 of the biggest wasters of food are Muslim countries

[Prince Abubu]

Nah we're good looking. A shit hole but a sexy one

Saudi Arabia is just fat and exports terror

For real though, for a group of people as few in numbers as Somalis, we spread lot of mischief and notoriety around the world. We're like the anti-Jews.

 

[VixR]

I'm impressed @ South Africa.


The US is pretty bad! I was more surprised at the reason stated by this recent The Atlantic article I found from googling:

What causes this? A major reason is that food is cheaper in the United States than nearly anywhere else in the world, aided (controversially) by subsidies to corn, wheat, milk, and soybeans. But the great American squandering of produce appears to be a cultural dynamic as well, enabled in large part by a national obsession with the aesthetic quality of food. Fruits and vegetables, in addition to generally being healthful, have a tendency to bruise, brown, wilt, oxidize, ding, or discolor and that is apparently something American shoppers will not abide. For an American family of four, the average value of discarded produce is nearly $1,600 annually. (Globally, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that one-third of all food grown is lost or wasted, an amount valued at nearly $3 trillion. )
Writing about food waste for The Atlantic back in 2014, Elizabeth Segran gestured at both the shoppers who refuse to buy imperfect-looking fruit as well as the grocers who refuse to stock the shelves with any wonky-looking wares. “Grocery stores routinely trash produce for being the wrong shape or containing minor blemishes,” Doug Rauch, the former president of the Trader Joe’s Company, told her.

But that assumes such produce even reaches the stores. Quoting workers and experts at a variety of vantage points in the food system, The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg also reports that, “Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the U.S. are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly from the field to landfill, because of unrealistic and unyielding cosmetic standards.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/491513/

Saudis and Gulf Arabs have become total fat fucks. They live indoors 24/7 and when they go outside it's only briefly to hop onto their air-conditioned cars to drive to air-conditioned malls. They are never outdoors.

Can you blame them? Their climate sucks.