date:Nov 09, 2012
urn a higher profit -- though he probably wouldn't object to that. Instead, according to the Telegraph, Kees Vis (who won a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award for his work on food sustainability in 2011) thinks that low prices encourage food waste.
Kees Vis noted that half of the food purchased in London ends up being thrown out. (Statistics on food waste in the U.S. are no more encouraging.) He argued that people wouldn't be as likely to buy too much food -- and end up throwing out so muc