Canada is discarding 46.5 percent of its annual food production at an estimated cost of more than $50 billion every year, according to a newly released report.
The country’s food system disposes of 21.1 million tonnes of the food it produces annually and, according to a report from non-profit group Second Harvest, 8.8 million tonnes—or 41.6 percent—of that waste could have been “rescued” to feed more than 17 million Canadians per year.
The cost of the wasted food comes in at an estimated $58 billion, which is enough money to pay for the groceries of 3.7 million Canadian families for a year, Second Harvest said in its report….