Throwing out food scraps and leftovers hardly seems controversial until you consider the statistics: some 870 million people go to bed hungry every night, notes the World Food Programme. Pope Francis took this issue to heart and to the public when he equated food waste with "stealing from the table of the poor and hungry," notes CBC News. The Pope's remarks are made all the more poignant by the fact that more than $31 billion worth of food is wasted in Canada every year. And when energy, water and other resources are factored in, the true cost may be almost three times that much, says a new report from the consulting firm Value Chain Management International. Yet for the same time frame, one out of nine people worldwide goes hungry, according to the United Nations.
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