The banality, the banality

The Guardian's CiF column is the gift that keeps on giving. Here's the opening argument from a piece by an American woman called Sadhbh (how the hell do you pronounce that?) Walsh:

The world's food systems are in crisis. Droughts and flooding have compromised crop production across the globe and over one billion people are hungry. But here in America, our overstocked supermarket shelves continue to propagate the illusion of plenty and, in the past decade, our rate of food waste has more than doubled.

According to a recent study, over 40% of the food produced in America is wasted each year, and only 2% of this waste is composted. Food waste is now the second largest waste stream sent to landfills, where it produces methane, a deadly greenhouse gas that further impacts climate change. Climate change, in turn, is having a deadly impact on our food supply.

One looks in vain for some suggestion how the broccoli and yoghurt this woman discards from her refrigerator might have been routed to the starving millions.

Reminds me of an old story about a meeting of the Women's Institute where the guest speaker ended a talk about world over-population with a rhetorical flourish:  

Every minute of the day a woman in China gives birth. What are we to do about it? 

Came the reply from the hall:

Find that woman and stop her!