"Consumers pay $7.5 trillion each year for industrially produced food. But between a third and
"Consumers pay $7.5 trillion each year for industrially produced food. But between a third and half of this production is wasted along the way to the consumer or at the table: spoiled in the field or in transport, rejected from grocers because of blemishes, or left on the plate because of over-serving."
Source: https://fairworldproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/The-Road-to-Food-Sovereignty_Issue-16.pdf