Waste food

In the USA and in Oceania, which Australia is a part of, we're not only the biggest wasters and losers of food in the world, but around 60% of it is at the consumption net, and when one drills down into what that 60% comprises, we find several things. One is that a lot of food is wasted in supermarkets. We have an obsession with use-by dates, you know, you look at the product, and it says use by, and once it hits that use-by date on the shelf, it has to come. You could have bought the same product the day before, and it's in your fridge a week or two later, and it's still perfectly fine. Or an obsession with use-by dates is a contributing factor. The second one comes around to what we purchase and how we use it, and there seems to be an attitude that, you know, food is a commodity, and we've lost our respect for it. Oh, well, you know, I'll buy that much. Oh well, I'll buy a bit more. Not a good idea!